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AAPS welcomes exchange students from sister city

October 7, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Fourteen students from Ann Arbor’s sister city of Hikone, Japan are enjoying the first days of their weeklong visit to Ann Arbor. “People are so friendly,” said […]

Back to school tour highlights some of the great work in Ann Arbor Public Schools

October 5, 2015 AAPS News Editor

With the start of the new school year there are a lot of exciting new changes across the Ann Arbor Public Schools. Here’s a brief recap of some of the exciting news that Superintendent Jeanice Swift heard about and saw while touring all of the district’s schools in the first weeks of school.

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Skyline High School’s 2015 Homecoming Parade

October 5, 2015 AAPS News Editor

The AAPS District News’ Andrew Cluley captured some of the sights of Skyline High School’s 2015 Homecoming Parade. See the slideshow here.

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‘Become who you were born to be,’ professors tell students at HistoryMakers’ Back to School Day

September 29, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Stay in school and work hard so that one day you will do what you were born to do. That was the message University of Michigan professors […]

Annual run-a-thon is colorful blast for Lawton community

September 28, 2015 AAPS News Editor

AAPS News Editor Jo Mathis captured the excitement of Friday evening’s 14th Annual Lawton Color Run-a-thon which raised money for the John R. Crosby Foundation and the Lawton Elementary PTO. John Crosby was a third […]

Deborah Wolter, AAPS teacher consultant

September 24, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Deborah Wolter, an AAPS elementary teacher consultant, has worked with public school teachers and their students from all walks of life, including those in special education and English language learners. Prior to that, she […]

Judge upholds Ann Arbor Public Schools safety policies banning guns

September 24, 2015 AAPS News Editor

“We have a higher standard of care for our students that we willingly embrace and fiercely defend – that of maintaining the safest educational environment – an environment in which guns simply have no place,” says School Board President Deb Mexicotte.

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