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Superintendent Kevin Polston laid out a new $17.35 million bond plan to renovate Lee Middle and High School at the first of two community meetings...

School News Network continues its reporting on how districts, teachers and families are helping students learn both inside and outside the school walls during the coronavirus pandemic. We want to serve our schools and you, our readers, during this challenging time, so please send us your ideas for stories and questions you have. Thank you, and live safely!

With kids home from school and the future unclear, a family game of Monopoly, video chats with loved ones and bike riding help calm the anxiety...

The 20 school districts of Kent ISD are making free meals available to students and families during the mandatory statewide school closure...

Students in Shelby Denhof’s English 11A class at Rockford High recently wrote op-ed essays, as part of a unit on persuasion and argumentative writing. School News Network received a number of essays and selected two of them to publish, by Kaylie Leasher and Rachel Broekstra...

Sophomores at Godwin Heights High School recently discovered for themselves how the radium in paint used at a 1900s company left a legacy of illness and death in its wake...

The goal is to have a finished product presented at the Board of Education’s March 9 meeting...

Modernized classrooms, including a new STEM room in the high school, a renovated Performing Arts Center, new band and orchestra instruments, and upgraded technology are some highlights of a proposed $67 million bond on the ballot Tuesday, May 5...

Students got a simulated experience that included a budget (complete with educational loan debt) based on their intended career path...

Strategic use of music cuts down on late arrivals to class...

The week-long inaugural event was held at the Early Childhood Center...

For the second straight year, Zinser is partnering with GVSU to benefit both college and elementary school students...

Students use a chart to help them choose their own consequences for inappropriate behavior...

Cedar Springs junior and DJ Martin Yakes plans for a career in music...

Four art students won top honors out of 127 competitors at the third-annual Cedar Springs High School Art Competition...

Those bumper stickers about holding bake sales to benefit school funding? Yes, literally...