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Overcoming homelessness to get her degree, she’s ready to help others

Grads with Grit Erin Albanese
Jordan Lovett, once homeless, graduated from Grand Valley State University with a bachelor’s degree in social work. She is eager to advocate for others facing similar struggles to her own...

Students learn skills the fun way: making music

Lowell Morgan Jarema
A group of Alto Elementary students took part in 10 one-hour sessions with a music therapist at the Franciscan Life Process Center, thanks to a grant from the Lowell Education Foundation...

Pine Grove Learning Center offers profoundly challenged students an opportunity to learn

Special Education James Harger
The Pine Grove Learning Center is where 103 of the most challenged special education students and their families in Southwest Kent County find unconditional acceptance. They also find an opportunity to learn and grow despite their physical and learning disabilities...

Students progress despite their impairments at Pine Grove Learning Center

All Districts James Harger
Teachers at the Pine Grove Learning Center take the long approach as they work with severely impaired students who attend the center-based program, which will transition from Grand Rapids Public Schools to Kent ISD this summer...

Five percent of third-graders could face retention under cut score for reading M-STEP

Issues in Education Erin Albanese
The law was approved in 2016, requiring students more than one year behind grade-level in reading to repeat third grade and receive additional support...

‘Amazing’ teachers at Pine Grove offer a beacon of hope for students like Evan

All Districts James Harger
Despite his multiple impairments, 14-year-old Evan Valdivia is learning to respond to others around him thanks to teamwork by his family and the staff at Pine Grove Learning Center...

‘We all aspire to learn more’

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese
Celebrating 30 years as a post-secondary college experience in the arts and sciences, the academy serves students with education and a place to belong...

For some students, graduating takes five or six years — ‘and that’s OK’

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Districts including Kentwood, Grand Rapids and Wyoming face distinct challenges in their four-year grad rates, partly because of their large immigrant/English-language learner populations. But they are making progress under the radar...

Former EPA official sees young people leading environmental ‘reawakening’

Issues in Education Charles Honey
Mustafa Santiago Ali sees passionate environmental concerns in young people all across the country, as he brings his global-warning message to students through the lens of hip-hop culture...

Inadequate funding – even in affluent districts – still short-changes students

Issues in Education Charles Honey
It’s not just poorer districts feeling the pain from Michigan’s inadequate school funding, officials say. Higher-income districts are also pinched by the funding formula and having to make cuts...

Secretary DeVos should be as transparent as local superintendents in budget decisions

Issues in Education School News Network
This guest commentary is submitted by Michael Paskewicz, former superintendent of Northview Public Schools...

Increased costs, slow funding increases create tight budget

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema
While Forest Hills is considered one of the most affluent school districts in West Michigan, it still feels the budget pinch of a lower per-pupil allowance than the district received a decade ago...

District faces dilemma of budget reality contrasted with community perception

Caledonia Erin Albanese
When it comes to the financial state of Caledonia Community Schools, there’s a disparity between public perception and reality, says Superintendent Dedrick Martin...

Time to re-examine state teacher evaluation laws, following legislative vote

Issues in Education Sunil Joy, research data analyst for Kent ISD
There is an emerging trend in public education these days: widespread teacher shortages, low enrollment in teacher education programs and even teacher walkouts across entire states...

Student Services Team created to focus on mental health

Caledonia Hannah Lentz
The team will focus on additional staffing, community education, professional development and initiatives to maintain positive images of the importance of mental health...

Educators say it’s urgent to bring more teachers of color into the pipeline

Issues in Education Erin Albanese
More than 100 educators gathered at Kent ISD to address the need to recruit, hire and retain teachers of color to serve a growingly diverse population of students...
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