Willow Run Community Schools Board of Education approved laying off 26 para-educators, effective July 1, according to a report in the Ypsilanti Courier.
Several Washtenaw County schools are receiving fewer retirement notices than usual this spring as teachers wait for legislators to act on reforming the school employee pension fund.
Video streaming by Ustream UPDATE: At about 7:35 p.m., both boards passed a resolution to move forward with the potential consolidation. The resolution will place the merger proposal on an upcoming ballot. Willow Run trustees Brenda Meadows and Bobby Stevens were the only "no" votes. The school boards of Willow ...
This story has been updated. WATCH: Tonight's meeting will be live streamed on AnnArbor.com via the Ypsilanti Township site YTownCan.com. Check back at 7 p.m. to tune in. Board members with Willow Run and Ypsilanti public schools will meet tonight to vote on moving both districts toward a possible consolidation. ...
Gregory Myers will sit on the next Willow Run School Board. Myers ran unopposed, and will serve a full term. With 10 of 11 precincts reporting, the unofficial vote count gave Myers 516 votes and a write-in candidate 21 votes.
The new school accreditation standards promoted by the Michigan Department of Education could mean trouble for Ypsilanti and Willow Run High Schools, according to a report in The Detroit News. The News report details how the department and state superintendent Mike Flanagan are looking to revise state accreditation standards to ...
This story has been updated The Ypsilanti and Willow Run school boards will hold their long-anticipated joint meeting at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 24 on the campus of Eastern Michigan University, school officials said Friday. The two school board presidents, David Bates in Ypsilanti and Don Garrett Jr. in Willow Run, ...
It's show time in Willow Run Community Schools District officials and staff members are preparing to launch a redesign plan they hope will increase student achievement and save the district hundreds of thousands of dollars. Eventually, they hope the plan will lead to the district attracting new students and families ...
Two area school districts will be seeing new superintendents start work Friday as Ann Arbor Public Schools and Lincoln Consolidated Schools welcome their new leaders. Patricia Green will be taking over as Ann Arbor superintendent from Robert Allen, who has filled the role on an interim basis since October. The ...
Willow Run Community Schools is expected to operate with a $411,000 surplus to help pay off the district's debt in 2011-12, after the school board passed a budget Thursday that includes a 10 percent cut in compensation for all employees. The district had to fill a $1.169 million budget deficit ...
Fewer than half the students in the Willow Run school district's class of 2008 graduated from high school in four years, recently released statistics from the Michigan Department of Education show. That’s the lowest graduation rate of any school district in Washtenaw County and a drop of almost nine percentage ...
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