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Month: April 2016

Community Gives Back

Thanks to voters last May, new fleet replacement schedule ensures student safety

April 29, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story and photo by Jo Mathis AAPS District News A year ago, AAPS’ bus fleet manager John Nikolich was spending an awful lot of time overseeing the repair of aging, rusting buses. Then the voters […]

Academics

Ann Arbor Public Schools celebrate the newly named W. Scott Westerman, Jr. Preschool and Family Center

April 28, 2016 AAPS News Editor

“We began to think about the match between the man and the location. We couldn’t think of a better match because we know your commitment to early childhood and to what it means, not just for their K-12 experience, but for their entire lifetime,” Superintendent Jeanice Swift says about the W. Scott Westerman, Jr. Preschool & Family Center. […]

Elementary News

Here’s to those who keep things humming: AAPS salutes office professionals

April 27, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story, photos and video by Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor They know every name, can handle every emergency, and answer the doorbell 80 times a day. On Administrative Professionals Day, AAPS honors its 105 […]

Features

Community High Jazz combo Tempus Fugit wins prestigious Downbeat Magazine award

April 26, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Video and photo by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News The Community High Jazz combo Tempus Fugit has just won a major international award: The Downbeat Magazine Outstanding Performance Award in the High School Combo contest. This is the biggest worldwide […]

Features

Astronaut tells Pioneer High School students to reach beyond their grasp

April 25, 2016 AAPS News Editor

“I want to encourage you to reach beyond your grasp. We can all do more than we think we can, especially if we’re pushed, but reach beyond your grasp,” said astronaut Jack Lousma. […]

"Exceptional" profiles

Tracy Anderson, Community High School English teacher

April 25, 2016 AAPS News Editor

  Tracy Anderson was walking out of the Ann Arbor District Library in 2000, balancing a stack of books for her thesis research, when she stopped by the job posting board and saw the opening […]

Community Gives Back

Scarlett students mark Earth Day and Arbor Day by planting maples

April 22, 2016 AAPS News Editor

  Story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Two new miyabei maple trees now grace a stretch of Lorraine Street near the Mitchell/Scarlett campus thanks in part to 11 Scarlett Middle School seventh graders. […]

Community Gives Back

Ann Arbor Educational Foundation celebrates 25th Anniversary

April 21, 2016 AAPS News Editor

“We’re fighting a fight, let’s be honest about this, when I was in school in the 70’s and 80’s in the Ann Arbor system the state provided tremendous support for the public schools, that is no longer the case,” says author John U. Bacon as he calls for support for the Ann Arbor Educational Foundation. […]

Features

Italian exchange student—a YouTube music video star—has a lead role in Pioneer Theater Guild’s “Rock of Ages!”

April 15, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story, video and photo by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News  What’s an Italian YouTube star like Alba Ciacco doing in a Pioneer Theater Guild musical? For starters, the guild’s upcoming rendition of the Broadway hit “Rock […]

Elementary News

Wines vocal music teacher named UMS/DTE Energy Fund Educator of the Year

April 14, 2016 AAPS News Editor

  Story, video and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Wines Elementary vocal music teacher Beth McNally thought she was simply going to an ordinary school assembly when Principal David DeYoung surprised her with some […]

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