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Free student Jazz Mentoring Workshop is offered
All Ann Arbor Public Schools middle school and high school musicians are invited to participate in this free afternoon event at Community High School.
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Burns Park Players presents ‘How to Succeed in Business …’
The Feb. 4-5 and Feb. 10-12 performances at Tappan Middle School include a cast of 170 community members, including 100 Burns Park Elementary students. Proceeds of the annual production benefit students in the Ann Arbor Public Schools.
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Foundation, visitors bureau launch Ann Arbor alumni website
The Ann Arbor Public Schools Educational Foundation has created a new website designed to link alumni with their academic roots: www.annarboralumni.org. It is co-sponsored by the AAPSEF and the Ann Arbor Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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Foundation grant brings Skyline physics students lessons in teamwork, project planning
Some 450 physics students at Skyline High Schooare taking part in Crash Test! one of 28 projects funded this fall by the AAPS Educational Foundation.
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Ed Foundation adds world language to funding list
The AAPS Educational Foundation will again fund the district’s elementary world language partnership with U-M this year, bringing the foundation’s total to $230,000 for major projects funded in the district this fall.
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AAPSEF funds $123,000 in ‘Initiatives for Excellence’ grants
The AAPS Educational Foundation has funded Elementary Enrichment, Environmental Science, fifth-grade music and testing assessment programs plus 28 teacher grants for 2010-11. And more are being considered.
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Pioneer Class of ’80 steps up, starts new ed foundation fund
The Pioneer alumni started a new fund for the foundation, selling specially designed athletic shoes at their 30th reunion. Teachers can apply for this and other foundation grants through Oct. 1.
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School bells: Technology, cyber school, early college OKed
The Ann Arbor Public Schools is continuing technology update plans with the board approving expenditure of $3.058 million on Sept. 15, with funds taken from the voter-approved 2004 bond proposal.
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Family’s gift will match staff donations to school foundation
A $50,000 donation in memory of the late Dr. James A. Norton Jr. to the AAPS Educational Foundation will be used to match school employees contributions to the foundation through Sept. 30.
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A honey of a lesson: Students visit Raynor hives, enjoy a sweet harvest
WITH VIDEO: Retired Ann Arbor teacher Jane Levy still keeps her hand in it, educating students about honey bees both during the school year and at summer camp. Sweet.