A student punched a Willow Run school bus driver in the head Thursday after the bus driver broke up an earlier fight between students, Washtenaw County sheriff’s deputies said.
A school bus carrying about 20 students from the Willow Run School District was struck from behind by a semi truck sliding on ice Thursday morning in Superior Township, police said.
The number of students struggling to keep up in school while their families cope with homelessness has increased dramatically in Michigan in recent years, the Detroit Free press reports, and Washtenaw County figures show a similar trend. The percentage of homeless students is particularly high in Willow Run and Ypsilanti ...
A thief or thieves took video game equipment and a digital camera from Willow Run Middle School in Ypsilanti Township earlier this week, the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office said.
Willow Run Community Schools will have a brand new look in the 2011-12 school year. The Willow Run school board approved a reconfiguration plan Thursday that will see the district consolidated into four school buildings, resulting in the closure of Kaiser Elementary School and Cheney Elementary School. The pre-kindergarten through ...
Doris Hope-Jackson Former Willow Run Schools Superintendent Doris Hope-Jackson has claimed in a lawsuit that a long-running conflict she had with former school board President Sheri Washington stemmed from a spurned lesbian advance Washington made shortly after Hope-Jackson was hired. That spurned advance set Washington on a path to destroy ...
While most students are asleep and hoping they’ll wake up to news of a snow day, Tom Moore is out driving on Ann Arbor's roads to help make that decision. Ultimately, district superintendents have the final say on whether school will go ahead on snowy mornings. But Moore, the director ...
Willow Run Community Schools will induct five new members into its Hall of Fame at an annual banquet on Nov. 6, including a Secret Service officer who died last year. Pascal John Hall, Jon Maggard, Renee Smith, Charles Swanson and Lt. Col. Ronald Thornton Jr. will be honored at the ...
Two incumbents and a challenger are running for two full-term Willow Run school board seats. Board President Sheri Washington and Trustee Don Garrett face a challenge from Brenda Meadows. Washington is running for her second term while Garrett, who was appointed to fill a vacant seat last November, is seeking ...
Willow Run Community Schools spent more than $125,000 on legal expenses during the process of firing former superintendent Doris Hope-Jackson and administrator Laconda Hicks. Information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by AnnArbor.com shows the district paid $126,603.01 to Thrun Law Firm, P.C. to represent it in due process ...
Holmes Elementary School in Willow Run was one of four schools in the state recognized for demonstrating leadership in school improvement and gains in student achievement among urban school systems. The school was named a winner of the 2010 Robert and Patricia Muth Excellence in Leadership Award, presented by Middle ...
Note: This story has been updated with additional comments from a parent.Darlene Parish watched Tuesday afternoon as the school bus carrying her 8-year-old son sped past without dropping him off.For an hour and 35 minutes, the Ypsilanti mom didn't know where he was. After calling every number she could find, Parish ...
Doris Hope-Jackson’s controversial tenure with the Willow Run school district came to end at 6:28 p.m. tonight, following 17 days of due process hearings. The school board unanimously voted to fire her for misconduct and a material breach of her employment contract. And Hope-Jackson, the former superintendent, has already filed a ...
Vanessa Clarke, a parent with children at Ann Arbor Open School, says she finds it reassuring many of the routes and bus drivers will remain unchanged when school starts this week. Until the yellow buses get rolling, most parents say they’re taking a “wait and see” approach as the new ...
The Willow Run school board unanimously approved the contract of interim Superintendent Laura Lisiscki on Thursday night, nearly a year after Lisiscki assumed the role. Lisiscki took over in November 2009 after Dr. Doris Hope-Jackson took a leave of absence. Hope-Jackson has since been demoted to an administrative position and has been on ...
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