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Picnic Pops features Marine Band guest, Huron alum

May 21, 2012 AAPS News Editor

By Tara Cavanaugh This year’s Picnic Pops featured abundant sunshine, carnival games, balloons and – of course – the fun musical selections of the AAPS middle and high school bands. It also featured an esteemed […]

Student-produced ‘Legacies Project’ presented June 6

May 18, 2012 AAPS News Editor

Twenty-two high school juniors in Patricia Jenkins’s Communications, Media and Public Policy Magnet videotaped comprehensive oral history interviews with seven area seniors. The students conducted several interviews with their subjects, and have been editing for […]

Dance Body Spring Concert May 25

May 18, 2012 AAPS News Editor

Community High School’s Dance Body program will present their 33rd annual Spring Concert on Friday, May 25, starting at 7 p.m. at Tappan Middle School (2251 E. Stadium Blvd.)

Fifth grade friends band together after seeing loved ones suffer from cancer

May 18, 2012 AAPS News Editor

By Tara Cavanaugh This week a group of Pattengill fifth graders sold t-shirts during lunchtime to help raise money for the American Cancer Society. But this wasn’t a traditional fundraiser: the fifth graders came up […]

Health sciences program earns E3 Award from Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti Regional Chamber of Commerce

May 16, 2012 AAPS News Editor

By Tara Cavanaugh Each year the Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti Regional Chamber of Commerce gives out E3 Awards that recognize educational programs or educators for their “exemplary education endeavors.” The AAPS Health Science Program was […]

May 30 Lawton retirement celebration to feature guest: state Senator Rebekah Warren

May 15, 2012 AAPS News Editor

Music teacher Dr. Gloria Dunn, school psychologist Dr. Marilyn Higgins and fifth grade teacher Mrs. Gayle Richardson of Lawton Elementary School will retire at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year.

AAPS celebrates Bike to School Day

May 11, 2012 AAPS News Editor

By Tara Cavanaugh A parade of bike riders rolled in to Wines Elementary Wednesday morning. Tikes on tiny bikes with training wheels. Kids in bike buggies, enjoying the ride. Tandem bikes. Junior-sized mountain bikes. Grown-up […]

Help the Ann Arbor Preschool and Family Center win $10,000 to help with child speech development

May 9, 2012 AAPS News Editor

The Ann Arbor Preschool and Family Center has entered a contest to win $10,000. The money would provide speech pathologists with iPads to help young students develop critical speech and language skills. The “Project Help” […]

Fuzzy friends reinforce lessons on health, safety for special needs students

May 9, 2012 AAPS News Editor

By Tara Cavanaugh A dog can be a companion, a therapist or even a great teacher. Just ask the adaptive health class at Pioneer High School, which was visited by Michigan TheraPaws trainers and dogs […]

Tech Bond approved by voters

May 8, 2012 AAPS News Editor

Voters resoundingly approved the 2012 Tech Bond Tuesday night. Election results showed 70.35 percent voting for the bond and 29.65 percent voting against.

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