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Construction of new middle school gets under way

Sparta Janice Holst

The groundbreaking celebration for a new middle school included participation by fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders, who will be the first users of the new building when it opens in 2020...

Digging in at a farm made for learning

Rockford Janice Holst

A two-year pilot program has students from Rockford and Sparta schools spending multiple days at Plainsong Farm, which offers environmental education sessions...

Laughter, gratitude, memories and art featured at reunion with retired art teacher

Sparta Janice Holst

A retired Sparta art teacher hosts a reunion for reminiscing and allowing former students to pick up artwork she has saved through the years...

First-graders try on new donated backpacks

Sparta Janice Holst

Officials from AT&T were on hand to distribute over 200 backpacks to Sparta district students...

New Sparta superintendent: ‘Put me in, coach, I am ready to play’

Meet Your Administrators Janice Holst

The first question Pete Bush was asked by the student panel during the superintendent interview process was how he would decide on closing school for snow days. That, he said, is an important question, because it deals with school safety...

Don’t want to lose your smartness? Catch Books on the Run

Sparta Janice Holst

Books on the Run, in its third year in Sparta, makes 20-minute stops throughout the district’s community every two weeks. Other stops this year included the Ida Red Apartments, Sparta Townhouses, Glenwood Estates and Dietrich Farms...

Retiring Superintendent Gordie Nickels moving from district duties to his family, church

Sparta Janice Holst

Superintendent Gordie Nickels will move on from Sparta at the end of June, having announced his retirement in April. The school board has hired Pete Bush of Coloma Community Schools as his successor...

New schools chief seen as ‘incredible fit’ for district

Sparta Janice Holst

Pete Bush, who has served the last four years as superintendent of Coloma Community Schools, will replace retiring Sparta Superintendent Gordie Nickels...

‘Awesomely different’

Sparta Janice Holst

Local mom’s mission is to make sure students understand being different is just fine...

Book café gives students a taste of new reading

Sparta Janice Holst

Students were encouraged to widen their choice of genres, thanks to a menu of books served on silver platters...

Grant introduces healthy eating education via indoor tower gardens

Sparta Janice Holst

Sharing healthy eating principles with students is easier when the veggies are grown right in the classroom, thanks to a grant from the Sparta Education Foundation...

Sparta superintendent surprises district with retirement announcement

Sparta Janice Holst

The Sparta Board of Education voted 7-0 to approve Superintendent Gordie Nickels’ request for retirement, and expressed appreciation for his service

Imagination, hard work turn 3,000 plastic straws into amazing lion head

Sparta Janice Holst

Art teacher of over 30 years wowed by student art piece made from plastic straws

Spanish-language countries subject of middle school fair

Sparta Janice Holst

The annual Study Abroad Fair is the culmination of a unit in which each seventh- and eighth-grader chooses a Spanish-speaking country to study in-depth

Switching to specialty classes boosts teaching energy

Sparta Janice Holst

A move by veteran fourth-grade teachers from the classroom to specialty fields changed the Appleview atmosphere

Students take action, lend voices to honor Florida school victims and plead for violence to end

Multi Districts School News Network

The number 17 served as a marker not only for moments of silence in honor of those killed, but for students’ thoughts on how to make schools safer and kinder

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