Schools

Published February 3, 2020

Roseville school district to implement Young Fives classes

ROSEVILLE — Roseville Community Schools announced that it will be starting Young Fives classes at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year.

Published January 31, 2020

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

Non-homestead millage up for renewal in Lakeview

ST. CLAIR SHORES — Lakeview voters will be asked to renew a non-homestead millage that provides nearly $2.5 million to the district for operations in March.

Published January 31, 2020

Sterling Heights Sentry

Teachers union rejects UCS contract proposal

STERLING HEIGHTS — Utica Community Schools teachers who belong to the Utica Education Association union are still without a current contract after the union overwhelmingly rejected the school district’s latest offer in a vote.

Published January 31, 2020

Warren Weekly

WWPS to place bond proposal on May 5 ballot

WARREN — Three years ago, Warren Woods Public Schools taxpayers approved a $20.3 million bond issue to fund a number of districtwide building enhancements and technology updates.

Published January 31, 2020

Warren Weekly

No charges filed, but new claims reported in De La Salle hazing case

WARREN — A day after prosecutors announced that no charges would be filed as a result of hazing allegations tied to the football program at De La Salle Collegiate, the investigation rekindled with new claims reportedly brought by another student’s family.

Published January 29, 2020

Troy Times

Athens grad appears in Broadway tour of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’

TROY — Caitlin Lester-Sams once graced the stage at Athens High School, appearing in “West Side Story,” “Oklahoma!” and “Man of LaMancha.”

Published January 29, 2020

Macomb Township Chronicle

Dakota theater to perform ‘Les Misérables’

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Dakota High School’s theater department will perform “Les Misérables” in February.

Published January 29, 2020

Macomb Township Chronicle

Scholarships available for Macomb Township high school graduating seniors

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Over the next month, local high school students have the chance to apply for $1,000 scholarships.

Farmington Public School Superintendent Robert Herrera leads a community forum Jan. 22 to discuss and answer questions about the $98 million school bond proposal up for vote March 10.

Published January 29, 2020

Farmington Press

Residents weigh in on school bond proposal in Farmington, Hills

FARMINGTON/FARMINGTON HILLS — Roughly 20 Farmington-area residents met with Farmington Public Schools administrators 7-9 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Maxfield Education Center to discuss the upcoming $98 million school bond proposal, which residents will vote on during the March 10 presidential primary election.

Published January 29, 2020

Farmington Press

Police piecing together fight at North Farmington basketball game

FARMINGTON HILLS — As Kenede Marion, a senior guard for West Bloomfield High School’s basketball team, prepared to travel to North Farmington High School, his former school, for a basketball game Jan. 10, his parents and family were on edge.

Published January 29, 2020

Rochester Post

Grants help preserve archives at Oakland University

ROCHESTER HILLS — Oakland University has been given funds to preserve records chronicling the university’s history, as well as original materials on the history of Oakland County, the Civil War, women’s studies and other fields.

Published January 29, 2020

Grosse Pointe Times

Investigation into music teacher completed

GROSSE POINTES — On Dec. 6, the mother of a Mason Elementary School student filed a police report with the Grosse Pointe Woods Public Safety Department over an incident that she deemed “inappropriate” with the school’s music teacher.

Published January 28, 2020

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

Lake Shore students sew to help Australia’s animals

ST. CLAIR SHORES — Australia began burning in November, fueled by record-breaking temperatures and months of severe drought.

Published January 28, 2020

Grosse Pointe Times

GPPSS parents protest reconfiguration process

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — “Slow It Down,” “Let’s Do Better” and “Show Us the Plan” were among the signs that frustrated Grosse Pointe Public School System parents carried outside Brownell Middle School prior to the Jan. 27 Board of Education meeting.

A school bus windshield was broken when ice fell from another vehicle and hit it Jan. 21 in Shelby Township, according to Utica Community Schools officials.

Published January 24, 2020

C&G Newspapers

Flying ice hits UCS bus, injuring driver and student

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Utica Community Schools officials are praising a bus driver, as well as Malow Junior High students and staff, after a flying chunk of ice smashed their bus windshield Jan. 21.

Published January 24, 2020

C&G Newspapers

Scholarship, mini-grant opportunities available

METRO DETROIT — High school students planning to attend college or a vocational trade school are encouraged to look into scholarship opportunities from two local credit unions.

Published January 24, 2020

Warren Weekly

School board, superintendent sign White Paper resolution

CENTER LINE — While the legalization of recreational marijuana approved by voters in November 2018 pleased a lot of Michigan residents, there were many in the state concerned about the effects it could have on youth.

Published January 24, 2020

Warren Weekly

Center Line Public Schools superintendent announces retirement

CENTER LINE/WARREN — Earlier this month, Center Line Public Schools Superintendent Eve Kaltz announced her retirement effective June 30, 2020.

Published January 24, 2020

Madison - Park News

Trustee resigns from Madison school board

MADISON HEIGHTS — A trustee on the Madison District Public Schools Board of Education has resigned halfway through her term — and her replacement is the runner-up from the last election.

Published January 21, 2020

Troy Times

Troy High School focuses on how to prevent distracted driving

TROY — Richard Li and John Dannug, friends and seniors at Troy High School, said they had to throw the dice “a ridiculous number of times” before it came up snake eyes.

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