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DeWitt Public Schools' new superintendent has roots in Portland, Potterville
DeWITT — Kevin Robydek is the new superintendent of DeWitt Public Schools, and his new leadership position isn’t far from his last education post. Robydek was Potterville Public Schools’ top leader, a position he began in 2018, until DeWitt’s school board recently chose him as the district’s next top administrator. He vied for the...
Viewpoint: Designing schools without libraries restricts students' autonomy, freedom
In May 2022, Lansing voters overwhelmingly passed a $129.7 million bond measure to build three new elementary schools. Lansing Schools elementary students and families, however, were shocked to learn that their new schools were designed without libraries and librarians. Eliminating these resources impedes student access to educational materials and violates the Library Bill of Rights.
Area High School Shooting Sports Teams to Compete
Shooting sports teams from several area high schools will be competing next week at the 2024 USA High School Clay Target League National Championship. Teams from Cedarvale-Dexter High School and Labette County High School will compete in Mason Michigan, starting next Wednesday. The competition features 3,000 competitors from across the U.S. competing in clay target shooting in both team and individual events. The final round of competition with award the top ten male and top ten female athletes as well as the top five teams in the country.
Community members work to preserve former Eastern High School
A new committee is working to preserve the former Eastern High School campus after University of Michigan-Sparrow announced a 120-bed mental health facility on the site. The announcement, made June 7, outlined the health system’s plans to locate the facility on 1215 E. Michigan Ave, which a U-M-Sparrow spokesperson said had a “dilapidated interior.”
DBusiness Daily Update: Michigan State University Board of Trustees Approves $3.6B University Budget, and More
Michigan State University Board of Trustees Approves $3.6B University Budget. Concluding its retreat at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine Building in Flint, the MSU Board of Trustees approved the university’s fiscal year 2024-25 operating budget of $3.6 billion, presented by the administration, which includes tuition and fee rates for the 2024-25 academic year.
Single atoms show their true color
One of the challenges of cramming smarter and more powerful electronics into ever-shrinking devices is developing the tools and techniques to analyze the materials that make them up with increasingly intimate precision. Physicists at Michigan State University have taken a long-awaited step on that front with an approach that combines...
U of M Health-Sparrow says demolishing old Eastern is its only option
THURSDAY, July 4 — Old Eastern High School must be demolished to make room for a psychiatric facility, U of M Health-Sparrow has declared. “The former EHS building was built with the intention to serve students and teachers nearly 100 years ago — not to meet the modern behavioral health needs of our community,” spokesperson John Foren said in a statement sent to City Pulse. “Converting the existing former EHS building to a state-of-the-art behavioral health hospital is not possible.”
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