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Community Gives Back

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 […]
Features

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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Features

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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Community Gives Back

‘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 […]
Community Gives Back

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 […]
"Exceptional" profiles

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 […]
Board of Education

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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"Exceptional" profiles

Jonathan Stern, Pioneer High School social worker

September 22, 2015 AAPS News Editor
Jonathan Stern grew up in Englewood New Jersey, a diverse suburb of New York City. Education is the family business. His mother had a 60-year career as a public high school teacher and administrator and […]
Elementary News

AAPS celebrates Constitution Day; attorneys speak in every middle school

September 17, 2015 AAPS News Editor
By Jo Mathis AAPS District News Constitution Day may be one of those under-the-radar observances for most Americans. But in the Ann Arbor Public Schools, it’s yet another reason for students to learn something relevant. […]
Features

Preschool opens today; hugs abound

September 16, 2015 AAPS News Editor
AAPS District News Editor Jo Mathis was there to capture some of the action of the day:

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