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Students create eco-art for ArtPrize with Consumers Energy

Grand Rapids School News Network

The top 10 finalists in the sixth annual SmartArt competition are now on display at the ArtPrize HUB, 41 Sheldon Blvd. SE. The 10 were selected from nearly 50 entries created by Grand Rapids Public high school student artists...

MDE seeks parents for focus group June 21

All Districts School News Network

The Michigan Department of Education is seeking 12 parents for a June 21 focus group about the Parent Dashboard. No experience with the dashboard is needed, and participants will be given $40 as a thank you for their time...

Kent ISD leader named president of state association for business officials

Kent ISD School News Network

Mike Hagerty, assistant superintendent at Kent ISD, recently became the 81st president of Michigan School Business Officials. He will serve as president in 2018-19 after serving on the MSBO Board of Directors for the past six years...

Through music and movement, students with disabilities learn life skills

All Districts School News Network

At Lincoln School, students with autism, multiple impairments and cognitive disorders learn through movement, music and story thanks to a partnership with Grand Rapids Ballet...

Zoo visit by students for students

Comstock Park School News Network

Some 125 Stoney Creek Elementary kindergartners toured John Ball Zoo and were led by zoo school students

Mind Sports Roundup

Caledonia School News Network

School News Network will be running roundups of events including Odyssey of the Mind, Science Olympiad, MathCounts and robotics

Students seek ways to attract more people into teaching

Kent ISD School News Network

Teams of Kent Innovation High students were challenged to research the causes of the shortage of college students training to be teachers, and formulate a possible way for GVSU's College of Education to address the problem

East GR’s Jack Lado takes the title at Spelling Bee with “bollo”

All Districts School News Network

For nearly 15 minutes, totaling 18 rounds, Jack Lado and Aashray Mandala matched each other, word for word, until Aashray slipped and Jack won the 41st annual Greater Grand Rapids Spelling Bee

Wyoming, EGR and TK superintendents announce retirements

Multi Districts School News Network

Tom Reeder, superintendent of Wyoming Public Schools, and Sara Shubel, superintendent of East Grand Rapids Public Schools, announced their retirements last week, after Tom Enslen of Thornapple Kellogg announced his last month

A student’s perspective on March for Our Lives: ‘I helped make that happen’

All Districts School News Network

Northview High School junior Morgan King shares her perspective on the March for Our Lives and the student movement to make schools safer

Students take action, lend voices to honor Florida school victims and plead for violence to end

Multi Districts School News Network

The number 17 served as a marker not only for moments of silence in honor of those killed, but for students’ thoughts on how to make schools safer and kinder

A Shadower’s-eye View of Job Shadow Day

Forest Hills Student Showcase School News Network

One cannot simply learn from a classroom or a computer the insights and experiences that reside in a workforce, beyond the education bubble and...

Student Suspense Story Excerpts

Sparta Student Showcase School News Network

Leah Sajdek’s eighth -grade language arts classroom studied concepts involved in suspense writing, and found their 'inner Poe'

Student Writings for Theatre by the Numbers: A Sampling

Northview Student Showcase School News Network

Student submissions from Nancy Hoffman’s Advanced Theatre Arts Class, highlighted in the related story: The Play’s the Thing; So’s the Writing "Side Effects" by Heaven...

Don’t Just Tweak the Telegraph

Godfrey-Lee School News Network

Commentary by Kevin Polston, Superintendent, Godfrey-Lee Public Schools One of the universal shared American experiences is our public education system. Our country takes pride in...

Rockford’s Roguewood Elementary says ‘bienvenido’ to School News Network

Maranda School News Network

If you want to look into what is going on in schools around West Michigan, there is a tool that gives you the inside...

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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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