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Tech Center Students Excel at National Competition

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

Five Kent Career Technical Center students placed in the top 10 of their competition areas at the National Leadership and Skills Conference of SkillsUSA...

SNN Series Shows Team Approach Can Help Students Overcome Poverty

Kent ISD Charles Honey

I knew there was poverty up there in northern Kent County, but I didn’t know it felt this cold. Flossie Bliss sat in a plastic...

Who needs an early warning system? Just count students.

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

I have one word for those seeking insight from the new “early warning” system legislation signed into law by Gov. Snyder shortly after the...

Konarska Twins Leave Double Legacy

Kent ISD Tom Rademacher

You could spend a lot of time perusing the resumes of identical twin brothers Kevin and Keith Konarska, who retire at the end of...

SNN Receives Grant to Promote Student Journalism, Workshops

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

The school news website created two years ago to serve staff, families and students could include writing from the students themselves about what goes...

Inaugural Festival Changes Lives by Just Adding (Clean) Water

Kent ISD School News Network

Parents took their children to a free-flowing give and take at the inaugural River City Water Festival that demonstrated to them why they cannot...

‘I Knew I Had to be True to Myself’

Kent ISD School News Network

It was a drama-free coming-out when the student's request to have his school email address changed from Chelsea Williams to Callum Williams was granted. "It...

Planting Thanks, Growing Hope

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

About a dozen children from around Greater Grand Rapids gathered at the Kent ISD Educational Services Center building to plant annuals in commemoration of...

Dear Governor & Legislature: Thank You

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

Superintendents: they heard you. Teachers: they heard you. Parents: they heard you, too. Gov. Snyder and Grand Rapids executive John Kennedy last week joined legislators, members of...

First Group of Students Completes Innovation High Program

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

There was the time Kent Innovation High School student Anna Reynolds' group surveyed the community on their knowledge of human trafficking. Or the time...

Regional Media Center a Treasure Chest of Teaching Tools

Kent ISD Linda Odette

For rent: The sky. Cost: $50. Assembly required. This "sky" is inside the StarLab, a portable planetarium that looks like a big, gray, glob of...

Creating Safe Schools for LGBTQ Students

Kent ISD School News Network

They are at a higher risk for homelessness, alcohol and substance abuse, harassment, assaults, suicide, dropping out of school and truancy. But progress continues to...

Tech Center Criminal Justice, Aviation Students Earn State Award

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

Arriya Harris is entirely comfortable about a future as a woman in a field that's traditionally been mostly men. The same goes for Damaris...

Superintendent: ‘This is a Revolution. We Will be ‘The Region That Reads’

Kent City Erin Albanese

West Michigan teachers and administrators recently heard the five common practices that lead to success in reading, and many are ready to implement those...

Staff Joins Students in Bocce Tournament, Prep for Special Olympics

Forest Hills Adrian Hirsch

Edible medals and a rolling good time was had by Forest Hills students when the Kent ISD maintenance staff showed up for a bocce...

Finger-Pointing Baboons Named Hands-Down Art Competition Winner

Caledonia Morgan Jarema

Marissa Drew is drawn to illustrating animals with human bodies. Good call. Now she knows others agree with her artistic whimsy. A painting she...

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School News Network reports on the 20 public school districts in Kent County, which enroll more than 90,000 students. Founded in 2013, we are an editorially independent news site funded by Kent ISD, local districts and community sponsors, and powered by an experienced team of reporters, editors and photojournalists. We specialize in covering classroom teaching and learning, analyzing the many issues that enhance or discourage student success, and highlighting the education magic that happens each day in our public schools.

Second-grade teacher: literacy is a civil right

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Book battle promotes literacy, teamwork

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