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Is AI helping you learn, or just making you lazier?

All Districts Charles Honey

Artificial intelligence, better known as AI, is now everywhere all the time. We ask our student roundtable: Is this entirely a good thing?

Tech Center’s newest class makes the connection between marketing and design

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

With a large interest in its marketing program, the Tech Center is offering a new class that showcases the importance of design for a business.

Are you feeling the effects of political polarization at your school?

All Districts Beth Heinen Bell

Do high-schoolers feel today’s political tensions in their everyday lives? Is an underlying climate of divisiveness affecting their school experiences at all?

Bond passes in Northview, several districts approve operating millages

Multi Districts Beth Heinen Bell

Voters on Tuesday showed up for their public schools, approving multiple districts’ non-homestead operating millages and a bond request from Northview Public Schools.

Commentary: Are teachers really appreciated, or under ‘anti-woke’ attack?

All Districts Charles Honey

Teacher Appreciation Week should be a celebration of our children’s best instructors, but federal DEI ultimatums tied to funding are threatening their academic freedom and support for disadvantaged students.

High-schoolers: Do you feel safe at school?

All Districts Beth Heinen Bell

Do today’s high-schoolers feel safe in school? Is that possible in this era of regular headline-making acts of violence in school settings?

‘Uniquely talented’ a cappella ensemble finds the right beat

Northview Beth Heinen Bell

What is From the Top? “A bunch of music nerds in a room, just jamming out together and bringing that energy.” Get to know this high school a cappella ensemble.

Poverty simulation available to schools

All Districts Alexis Stark

Access of West Michigan hopes to educate more students, teachers and leaders in education about the realities of poverty and inspire advocacy.

District leaders forecast impact of tariffs, funding on budgets in uncertain times

All Districts Erin Albanese

The whiplash regarding back-and-forth tariff threats and the future of federal funds are on school leaders’ minds as they prepare next school year’s budgets.

$74.6 million bond proposal would fund improvements, additions district-wide

Northview Beth Heinen Bell

Approval of the bond, which comes with no expected tax rate increase, will allow the district to update learning spaces for today’s needs and address facility issues while protecting its general fund for instructional use.

How much do mental-health stressors complicate the high-school experience?

All Districts Charles Honey

How big of an issue is mental health in high school? Our student panelists weigh in on the pressures they face, including college costs and the need to be successful.

We ask students: What is high school like for you?

All Districts Erin Albanese

Ten students, 10 different high schools. We ask, ‘What is school like for you?’ They weigh in on that, and so much more.

Young brains, big potential: From birth onward, special-ed services can make a lifetime of difference

All Districts School News Network

"Study Hall" talks to Lindsey VanDyke about how intervening with children’s special needs from the time they’re born can best prepare them for school and life.

Career unit helps prepare students for ‘life’s next step’

Northview Beth Heinen Bell

A unit on career exploration got these sixth-graders thinking about the future and how today’s classes are relevant.

Meet your future real estate agent, archaeologist & civil engineer

Northview Beth Heinen Bell

We spoke to three sixth-graders toward the end of a career unit to see what dreams they have for their future, and how this unit may have helped shed light on those ideas.