Renovations at Ypsilanti High School’s Shadford Field have not only displaced several of the high school’s athletic teams, but is expected to affect a local youth football team that rents the field. The Ypsilanti Huron Braves usually use the field for 4 football games annually, making Shadford Field their home ...
Administrators in Ypsilanti Public Schools may have some more budget juggling to do after being directed by the school board to reexamine the elimination of student service coordinators Monday. The positions were cut from the district’s budget for the 2011-12 school year, saving about $326,000. As of now, one of ...
Administrators in Ypsilanti Public Schools will need to find about $1 million more to cut from the 2011-12 budget by next week, officials revealed Monday. Chief Financial Officer David Houle said he wants to have the budget ready for review by the public by June 20, one week before the ...
The Ypsilanti Board of Education passed a deficit elimination plan Monday night — one day before the state’s deadline — but trustees say a permanent fix is needed at the state level. In the approved plan, chief financial officer David Houle wrote the district’s financial problems aren't due to excessive ...
The Ypsilanti Public Schools Board of Education is inching closer to finishing its state-mandated deficit elimination plan. The latest draft of the plan was discussed at a committee meeting Monday night and aims to cut an anticipated $26 million over the next five years. It includes reducing the ranks by ...
Officials from the Washtenaw Intermediate School District and Ypsilanti Public Schools continued deliberating Monday night over proposed changes to address problems that surfaced in the countywide busing consolidation. WISD's Brian Marcel, assistant superintendent for business services, and transportation director Tom Moore met with the school board to discuss several cost-saving measures regarding ...
For years, Ypsilanti school board members have discussed when they might draw a line in the sand and refuse to cut services from the district’s budget. They may have reached that point during Monday night’s school board meeting.
Nathan Phillips said his son was lonely after their family arrived in Ypsilanti. He was home schooled and his mother was battling cancer. “We felt like we didn’t know anybody here,” he said.His son, Phillips said, found needed respite in the Ypsilanti Youth Theatre.
The Ypsilanti school district posted a $1.5 million deficit in fiscal year 2010, which was about $998,000 less than originally anticipated, auditors told the school board Monday. The deficit was blamed on a mixture of state funding decreases, dropping enrollment and a larger than normal rise in retirements due to ...
Ypsilanti school board Vice-President Linda Snedacar-Horne was voted off the school board Tuesday, trailing the sitting president and a challenger.
Student achievement in Ypsilanti Public Schools at the elementary and middle school levels is rising, but Ypsilanti High School continues to underachieve, test scores show. Assistant Superintendent Jennifer Martin presented an update on student achievement at the Board of Education meeting Monday that painted a positive picture for grades three ...
Renewing Washtenaw County's special education millage would mean stable funding for federally mandated programs in school districts around the county, Ypsilanti Superintendent Dedrick Martin said Monday. Currently, school districts get about 84 percent of their funding for special education from the Washtenaw Intermediate School District, and all of that funding comes from ...
Ypsilanti teachers have agreed to a new, two-year contract, despite what they called significant cuts to their salaries and benefits, to end a lengthy negotiation process.The school board ratified that tentative agreement at its meeting tonight.
Ypsilanti Public Schools Superintendent Dedrick Martin received a vote of confidence from the Board of Education with a positive evaluation approved at Monday night's meeting. Out of a possible five points overall, Martin was given a 3.9 — nearly halfway between “met expectations” and “exceeded expectations.”
After a week of busing marked by complaints and delays for many, members of the Ypsilanti school board apologized and promised improvements are coming to the new, consolidated transportation department. The Washtenaw Intermediate School District is now providing transportation for the Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor and Willow Run districts, a change that wasn't as ...
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