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FutureStars 2017 is a high energy celebration of high school talent in AAPS

January 30, 2017 AAPS News Editor

Photos and videos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor The 15th annual Pioneer Theatre Guild’s FutureStars talent competition was held Saturday night before a sold-out crowd which  cheered on dozens of AAPS student singers, dancers […]

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Anthony Lauer, A2 Virtual+ Online Coordinator

January 26, 2017 AAPS News Editor

Profile and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Anthony Lauer was born in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota while his family was stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base. […]

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Huron BPA Chapter dominates at the BPA Regional Leadership Competition

January 13, 2017 AAPS News Editor

More than 80 members of ​Huron’s Business Professionals of America (BPA) Chapter, ​led by advisors ​Christy Garrett, Jonathan Cook, Allison Andres, Melissa Gordon and Karen Eisley, ​traveled to Dearborn last week  to compete in the […]

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‘Hometown kid’ says his passion is learning new and better ways to serve AAPS families

January 6, 2017 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor When Clague Middle School Principal Ché Carter was a junior at Huron High School back in 1992, a teacher suggested that he belonged on stage. In […]

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Michael Benedict, Pioneer art history, ceramics & sculpture teacher

December 27, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Michael Benedict was born and raised in Ann Arbor, and attended Allen elementary, Tappan Junior High, and Huron High Schools.  He studied chemistry and visual art at the University of Michigan, where he earned a […]

The AAPS BOE Performance committee in a hotel meeting room with a screen in the background highlighting high school start times as the topic of the meeting.
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AAPS working on comprehensive high school schedules to address start time concerns

December 22, 2016 AAPS News Editor

“The conversation should be about how can we develop a more comprehensive high school schedule that does allow and offers the flexibility that we certainly want to have for our students and that could support a later start time,” says Paul DeAngelis, Executive Director High School Education. […]

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Toyota donates six prototype engines to Pioneer’s auto program

December 22, 2016 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Toyota Technical Center in Livonia delivered an unexpected and exceptionally generous holiday gift to Ann Arbor Public Schools today. Six prototype engines, including some with transmissions, were delivered to the […]

Features

Thanks to rally of support, homeless Skyline student fulfills a dream

December 21, 2016 AAPS News Editor

By Emma Jackson/WISD       “All I want to do is dance.”      Long before Ke’Ron “Rainbow” Pugh committed that statement to paper, it was written on his heart.      He was smitten […]

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Director: `We have yet to see a music program that parallels the music program in Ann Arbor’

December 15, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story, photos & videos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Swedish conductor Göran Staxäng has looked at school music programs around the world, but hasn’t found any community that matches what Ann Arbor Public Schools offers. […]

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Pioneer English class to hold fundraiser tonight at the Neutral Zone

December 14, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News When Pioneer High School senior Ty Harris heard his English teacher, Bret Trocchio, ask if there was something the class could do to make the world a […]

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