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Wyoming Erin Albanese

When her mother died last summer, Wyoming Senior Tashia Sheneman lost a permanent place to live and has since moved several times. One of...

Volunteer’s Design Skills Help Make Stage Magic

Wyoming Erin Albanese

The wooden structures stood sturdy in Wyoming Public Schools' Dan Heintzelman auditorium. Greg Brooks and a crew of workers added final pieces to what...

Wyoming Girls Drive Robot to Semi-Final Finish

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Manning, or (wo)manning, the Wyoming High School robot resulted in a semi-final finish at a special Girls Only First Robotics competition at Bloomfield Hills...

TEAM 21 Connects Students with Mentors, Fun

Wyoming Erin Albanese

With their hands covered in flour, Yeriel Francis-Estrada and his friends measured two cups and plopped them in a bowl for a science experiment....

A Very Special Teacher for Special Kids

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher

Some years back on a Fourth of July, schoolteacher Sarah Bolema fielded a phone call from a distraught student's mom. To the mother's horror,...

Encouraging Community Reading with a Little Free Library

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Tracey Davis-Replogle has big plans for miniature free libraries: scatter them throughout Wyoming to motivate everyone to grab a book and read for enjoyment. "I...

Volunteer Builds Robots to Teach Engineering

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Students on the Wyoming High School FIRST Robotics team explain their robots’ ball-launching mechanism with notes of pride in their voices as they talk...

Retiring Custodian a “Superhero Listener”

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Many who have walked the halls at Oriole Park Elementary School know Bob Pickard is a superhero. To students who have inquired about this cleaning-carted...

Wyoming School Entrances to Become Secured This Summer

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Construction will take place this summer to secure entrances at Wyoming Public Schools' eight school buildings, a project Wyoming Superintendent Tom Reeder said is...

TEAM 21 Funding to Restore Cut Programs

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

For Claribel Ortiz, having a place for her four children to go after school and in the summer while she works helps a lot. She...

Crowd of Volunteers Work to Beautify Schools

Wyoming Erin Albanese

More than 250 volunteers from Grand Rapids First Church spent a summer week improving Wyoming Public Schools' buildings in any way they needed it,...

High School Students Publish Book Documenting Personal Journeys

Wyoming Erin Albanese

"My parents left me right after I was born, so I grew up in orphanages before I was adopted and moved to the United...

All Day, Every Day: Success Starts With Attendance

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Wyoming Intermediate School social worker Christine Karas works hard to make sure students are getting to school, even if she has to give them...

Student Graduates after Riding Train of Death through Mexico

Grads with Grit Erin Albanese

Editor's note: This is the fifth of a series about students who have had to overcome unusual challenges and hardships to graduate this spring. During...

Local Educators Get a Real Taste of Marine Boot Camp

Kenowa Hills Erin Albanese

Kenowa Hills High School Assistant Principal Jim Smith had to stop thinking like a scholar to determine the quickest way to complete a mission...

Wyoming Second Graders Band Together With Colorful Creation

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Oriole Park Elementary second graders recently stretched a colorful chain created from tiny rubber bands down the school hallway, past classrooms and lockers. "It's almost...

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School News Network reports on the 20 public school districts in Kent ISD, which enroll more than 102,000 students. Founded in 2013 as an initiative of Kent ISD, we are supported by local districts and community sponsors, and powered by an experienced team of reporters, editors and multimedia journalists. We specialize in covering classroom teaching and learning, analyzing the many issues facing students and highlighting the education magic that happens each day in our public schools.

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