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Retirees Start New Life but Miss Their School Family

Rockford Charles Honey

Phyllis King was feeling pretty blue about retiring from Valley View Elementary School after teaching there for 34 ½ years. So when summer came...

Spanish Immersion Students Engage Literature with Mexican Author

Rockford Charles Honey

Students from Rockford traversed time, space and cultures in a fruitful partnership with Grand Valley State University students and a Mexican author. A yearlong collaboration...

Painting Colorful Mural Helps Keep School Green

Rockford Charles Honey

Lexie Allshouse carefully colored a blue-and-pink butterfly. Chase Climczak daubed in green grass around a flower. Madelyn Good painted a delicately patterned border. Put their...

Roger B. Chaffee Scholar has Big Plans for Future

Rockford School News Network

Rockford High School senior Tessa Maren Powers has big dreams for her future. She is the recent recipient of the Roger B. Chaffee Scholarship,...

Tech Center Students Awarded Breaking Traditions Recognition

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Rockford High School student Sydney Bogard, who recently graduated from the Tech Center's Criminal Justice program, was one of 22 Michigan students recently honored...

Students Walk, Toss and Hula Hoop for Life

Rockford Charles Honey

Madison Snedeker's Aunt Holly died from cancer last year. That was one reason the East Rockford Middle School student was outside on a cold,...

Educators Urge State to Scrap ‘Flawed’ Performance Funding

Issues in Education Charles Honey

Rockford Public Schools could lose $80,000 in the coming school year because of a supposed decline in academic achievement. Problem is, officials don't know...

Odyssey Angels Honored for Teaching Technology to Seniors

Rockford Charles Honey

Gloria Hamacher got out her new computer tablet and asked eighth-graders Catherine Witte and Ashley Vriesenga for a little help. "Do you know how...

A Clean Sweep: Voters in Seven Kent Districts Approve Funding Requests

Caledonia School News Network

Tuesday was a good day for schools and students in Kent ISD, as voters approved tax proposals in all seven districts that requested them....

Hunger Heroes Raise Cash to Feed Others

Rockford Charles Honey

They called themselves Hunger Heroes as these Rockford first graders began fundraising to help feed other students in Haiti. A first-grade class at Lakes...

Bond Request: ‘We Want to Keep That Standard High’

Rockford Charles Honey

Nick and Joan Reichenbach could have moved anywhere in the country when they decided to leave their native Dearborn in 2004. Nick just needed...

TV Security Report Prompts Corrected ‘Mistakes’

Issues in Education Charles Honey

Although a recent TV report revealed weaknesses in Rockford schools' security system, Superintendent Michael Shibler said he's not sorry he cooperated with the project. "I...

Jamie Hosford: A Gentle Giant is Mourned

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher

In the end, it was his loyalty for which he was remembered – to his faith, his family, his beloved alma maters, and to...

Students Turn School into Their Own Olympics

Rockford Charles Honey

On the day of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Sochi, Russia, Rockford elementary students held their own version in the school gym complete...

… And More on the Way?

Kentwood Charles Honey

Chinese students enrolled at East Kentwood and Rockford high schools may be joined by more Weiming Education Group students next school year. Bernie Lu, Arthur...

Chinese Students in Kentwood and Rockford: So Far, So Good

Kentwood Charles Honey

Editor's note: Ten Chinese students are studying at East Kentwood and Rockford high schools this year, under a partnership with Weiming Education Group. After...

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