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Candidate Interview: Donna Lasinski
DONNA LASINSKI IS on AAPS Superintendent Jeanice Kerr Swift’s Blue Ribbon Advisory commission, a group of parents who meet with Swift monthly to give her feedback and counsel. Lasinski is polite and personable. She’s tough, too, and doesn’t…
Students at County High Schools Urged to Participate in College Application Week Nov. 3-7
WASHTENAW FUTURES plans to help high school counselors and students during College Application Week to complete and submit college applications.
Ashley Kryscynski is the regional Michigan College Application Week coordinator for…
U-M Sustainability Survey Reveals 75 Percent of Faculty and Staff Snub AAATA and “Always Drive a Car” to Work
ACCORDING TO A new report titled “Monitoring the Culture of Sustainability at the University of Michigan,” dated Fall 2013, despite being provided with free rides on city buses, fewer than 10 percent of U-M’s 6,431 faculty and 35,846 staff…
CANDIDATE INTERVIEW: Ann Arbor Board of Education Incumbent: Christine Stead
CHRISTINE STEAD IS the Vice President of the AAPS Board of Education. She comes to her interview dressed conservatively. She is not an Ann Arbor Birkenstock Board Bohemian. She is warm, smooth—not smarmy—in her answers and the definition of…
Haisley Elementary First School in City to Launch Little Free Library
by Donna Iadipaolo
THIS FALL, HAISLEY Elementary School became the first school in the Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS) to participate in the national “Little Free Library” (LFL) program.
The Little Free Library movement began in 2009…
EDITORIAL: Annexing a Financially and Academically Failing District Does Not Serve Ann Arbor
THE WHITMORE LAKE Public Schools may be a short distance from Ann Arbor just up US-23, but the two school districts are plagued by the same financial woes and the Whitmore Lake district’s student performance as measured by the MEAP, SAT and…
Deirdre Piper Withdraws from AAPS School Board Race
With just days to go in the race to fill four seats on the AAPS Board of Education, Deirdre Piper has withdrawn from the crowded field of 10 candidates.
She sent this statement is response to a question about her withdrawl from the race:…
WCC Trustee Candidates Criticize President’s $1,146 “Celebration” For Trustee Diana McKnight-Morton
by P.D. Lesko
THE MARCH 2014 catered “celebration” for WCC Trustee Diana McKnight-Morton cost county taxpayers $1,146. The event was charged to Dr. Rose Bellanca’s P-card. A receipt (below) detailing the cost of the event and what was…
Eight Candidates for WCC Board of Trustees Vying for Three Seats. In Their Own Words:
Eric Borregard: “The school’s got no money and the people at the top are feeding their face just like the rest of the political system, just like the governor. No one’s looking out for the kids, for bettering these kids’…
Conflicts of Interest—AAPS School Board Candidates
by P.D. Lesko
Please Note: I am acquainted with Hunter Van Valkenburgh, as well as his wife Aina Bernier. Monica Harrold, the wife of Board of Education candidate Jeffrey Harrold, was the principal at Northside Elementary, which my kids…