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‘Support comes from anyone and everyone in their own way’

Grand Rapids Alexis Stark

Her own teaching career on hold, a local woman finds a way to impact students...

New structure created to benefit student health

Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

As a new school year begins, a pair of new staffers will work to make sure the district’s 15,000 students have access to what they need for good physical and mental health...

Meet Your Administrators: Jason McGhee

Grand Rapids Alexis Stark

Jason McGhee is the new principal at Innovation Central High School...

Veteran Grand Rapids teacher back in classroom for 50th year

Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

The pandemic almost did her in, but she decided that if she didn’t have to return to virtual in 2021-22, she was coming back...

Looking for the right spot

Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

A City High junior is taking a parking spot frustration and turning it into a project he hopes benefits others for years to come...

Unearthing history: former principal collects artifacts from old Central High School

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Yearbooks, photos and other artifacts dating as far back as the 19th century have been collected from the former Central High School, now Innovation Central...

Alumni, fans celebrate 150 years of GRPS at hard-fought game

Grand Rapids Alexis Stark

August temperatures pushing 100 degrees did not stop Grand Rapids Public Schools alumni of all ages from attending the citywide alumni reunion on Friday, Aug. 27 and watching the Crosstown Throwdown football game between Union and Ottawa Hills...

Help wanted: Schools work to fill vacancies

Grand Rapids Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Just like local businesses, area schools are facing an employee shortage...

Voters ‘overwhelmingly’ approve operating millage

Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

Voters this week supported continuing a Grand Rapids Public Schools millage that generates about 15% of the district’s total operating budget. Just under 70 percent of votes were cast in favor...

Student spreads her passion for music through Girl Scouts project

Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

A rising senior at City High Middle has won the Girl Scouts Gold Award, the organization’s highest honor...

Post high school, she’s pursuing big dreams in the Big Apple

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

A year after graduating from high school during the pandemic lockdown, Mariah Barrera is wrapping up her first year at Columbia University in New York City...

Students envision the ideal community: ‘divine and unique’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

The Diatribe conducted a class at Ottawa Hills High School focusing on how racist policies contributed to segregated housing patterns in Grand Rapids...