Ann Arbor Public Schools

by P.D. Lesko County records show Ann Arbor School Board Trustee Ernesto Querijero, through his wife Lisa Querijero, applied for funding from the Washtenaw County Community Priority Fund in 2022. The money, according to the application…

The President of the AAPS Board of Education, Torchio Feaster, released a letter to the community announcing that the Board, through a "painful vote," had hired current Interim Superintendent Jazz Parks to lead the District. The letter, in…

by Shirley Rahmani Dear Ann Arbor Board of Education, I write to you today with utmost urgency and deep concern regarding the decisions made by the Ann Arbor Board of Education, specifically in relation to the divisive Israel-Hamas…

by P.D. Lesko Rabbi Nadav Caine leads the congregation at Beth Israel synagogue on Washtenaw Ave. On Jan. 15 he sent out an email to the members of the synagogue in which he sharply criticized the members of the Ann Arbor Public Schools…

Superintendent Jeanice Swift disputes value of the term “learning loss,” admits COVID affected “trajectory of growth” by Jaime A. Hope The superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools says students who were locked out of classrooms for…

by P.D. Lesko As of Feb. 28, DTE's outage map showed that 5.24 percent of its customers in Washtenaw County--some 8,836 customers--are still without power as a result of a record-breaking Feb. 22 ice storm that knocked out power to over…

by Patricia Lesko The Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education (BOE) met on March 29 to discuss, among other proposals, whether the District should designate certain schools as "Schools of Choice" and accept students who reside…

by Patricia Lesko Public school employee compensation is often a topic of scrutiny when school officials ask cash-strapped voters for additional money—in essence permission to go deeper in debt in order to pay the bills. In Ann Arbor, as…

by Maddie Fetchiet THE ANN ARBOR Independent investigated the Ann Arbor Public Schools, examining athletic participation and district spending dedicated to athletics and activities. According to records from the U.S. Office of Civil…

This second piece in her High School Heroes interview series, The Ann Arbor Independent’s high school intern Stavi Tennenbaum talks to Pathways to Success Junior Joe Miller about how heroin addiction and recovery have impacted his family,…