Last night, our friends at the League of Women Voters of the Ann Arbor Area hosted a televised event featuring the eight individuals running for the three open seats on the Ann Arbor School Board. While I’ve been unable to watch the archived Community Television Network stream, a friend just directed me toward the Annarbivore […]
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Ann Arbor Board of Education candidates discuss the dynamic between Ann Arbor and Ypsi school districts, the possibility of merger, and the fact that school policies are contributing toward segregation
Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Ann Arbor Public Schools, Ann Arbor School Board, Annarbivore, Deb Mexicotte, Don Wilkerson, Harmony Mitchell, Hunter Van Valkenburgh, Jeff Gaynor, Jeremy Glick, League of Women Voters, Monet Tiedemann, Rebecca Lazarus, schools of choice, Simone Lightfoot, YCS, Ypsilanti Community Schools 12 Comments
What a difference a few miles makes… Stanford data shows sharp division between educational outcomes across Washtenaw County following race and class lines
This past April, folks at the New York Times, using data collected by the Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford, created an online tool allowing users to explore the correlation between money, race and academic success across America’s school districts. Following are two screen captures. The first shows where the Ann Arbor school district […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Ypsilanti Also tagged Ann Arbor Public Schools, Center for Education Policy Analysis, class, dismantling of public education, economic segregation, education reform, inequality, National Assessment of Educational Progress, race, race inequality, schools of choice, segregation, Stanford, testing, threats to public education, YCS, Ypsilanti Public Schools 30 Comments
Now that Ann Arbor is going to be operating a school within Ypsilanti, maybe it’s a good time to broach the subject of our two districts working together, instead of against one another
On August 18, just a few weeks before classes were set to begin at Ann Arbor’s Allen Elementary, a water main broke beneath the school resulting in serious damages that parents were told would take several months to repair. Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS) Superintendent Jeanice Swift assured Allen families at the time that, in […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Allen Elementary, Ann Arbor Board of Education, bussing, charter schools, dismantling of public education, economic segregation, education reform, flooding, Jeanice Swift, Maria Sheler-Edwards, mergers, Proposition A, public education, schools of choice, segregation, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw Intermediate School District, West Middle School, WISD, YCS, Ypsilanti Board of Education 75 Comments