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From organization to district & vice versa, partnership supports community

Lowell Erin Albanese

Food, clothes and housing top the list of needs for families in Lowell Area Schools, and Flat River Outreach Ministries has been working to meet those needs for 26 years.

Organization works to bring affordable housing to community

Lowell Erin Albanese

With many families unable to afford housing, Flat River Outreach Ministries is bringing options to Lowell.

U.S. Rep. Scholten weighs in on national issues affecting local schools

All Districts Beth Heinen Bell

U.S. Rep. Hillary Scholten recently sat down with SNN to discuss career and technical education, the upcoming election and more.

Is it enough? Supplemental budget aims to offset mental health, security cuts

All Districts Riley Kelley

Supplemental funds will curb the impact of mental health and safety cuts in the education budget, but they won’t solve everything.

District leaders step up as bus drivers

Lowell Erin Albanese

School leaders step up to fill a bus driver shortage; in doing so they’re connecting with students, helping maintain routes and managing “a classroom with wheels.”

U.S. Education Secretary: ‘We gotta fight for our educators’

All Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona hosted a roundtable discussion on public service loan forgiveness with local educators.

First-year teacher wants students to know ‘You can have fun while learning’

Podcasts School News Network

In this episode of Study Hall, first-year Kent City teacher Marla Anderson discusses why she chose teaching at a time new teachers are badly needed.

Why do most schools start before Labor Day? Several reasons

Multi Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Middle college programs are the main reason Kent ISD seeks a post-Labor Day waiver for all local school districts. But there are others.

Student musicians tour Europe, performing along the way

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

With Michigan Musicians Abroad, high school students performed concerts in London, Paris, Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

Bus drivers role-play safety, security events

All Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

More than 170 attended a training focused on educating bus drivers on how to handle unexpected violence and threats.

Voters say ‘yes’ to library, early childhood millage requests

All Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Both the Kent District Library and the Ready by Five early childhood millage requests had huge support at the polls.

Campers master lessons, grow their knowledge on gardening

Lowell Erin Albanese

A lot goes into growing food, campers are learning, as they tend, harvest, eat and sell the bounty from their community garden.

Camp’s mission is to build an art community

Lowell Erin Albanese

Students spend summer days making suncatchers, tie dye, nature collages, treasure maps and painted rocks at Lowell’s first art camp.

Where does your milk come from? Second-graders learn the process

Lowell Erin Albanese

From feeding calves, to witnessing milk production, Cherry Creek second-graders learned about dairy farming in their own community.

Poetry Slam brings area teens center stage

Multi Districts Alexis Stark

Over 20 students from Kent County performed their poems live and uncensored at the eighth annual Teen Poetry Slam, hosted at the Kent District Library, in partnership with Write Michigan.

Bond proposals approved to fund elementary renovation, facility upgrades

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

Voters said ‘yes’ across the board in Kent ISD school districts Tuesday.

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