Tag Archives: Ann Arbor Public Schools

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

By Mark | September 28, 2016

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 […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAPS, 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

By Mark | September 12, 2016

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 AAPS, 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

If Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Public Schools could be joined with no additional cost to Ann Arbor taxpayers, bringing additional resources to Ypsi schools, might voters back it?

By Mark | February 26, 2015

A few few weeks ago, I posted something here about the findings of a study on affordable housing commissioned by Washtenaw County. The published report, as you may recall, didn’t paint a very pretty picture. Our communities, according to the study’s authors, are rapidly becoming segregated, with less-well-off people, especially people of color, quickly consolidating […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged affordable housing, Ann Arbor's economic refugees, annexation, economic segregation, Economic Segregation Index, Jcp2, poverty, public education, public school, school consolidation, school funding, segregation, Steve Norton, Washtenaw County's Affordable Housing Needs Assessment, Whitmore Lake, Willow Run, Ypsilanti Community Schools | 64 Comments

The annexation of Whitmore Lake schools… Who wins? Who loses?

By Mark | October 30, 2014

The Whitmore Lake School District, which presently serves approximately 1,000 K-12 students, is reported to be $60 million is debt. And word on the street is that Lansing might dissolve the entire thing in favor of an all-charter system, unless a way can be found to put the district back on a path toward solvency. […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Zemke, Ann Arbor School Musings, charter schools, dismantling of public education, for-profit charter schools, Linh Song, public education, Ruth Kraut, school consolidation, threats to public education, Whitmore Lake, Ypsilanti Public Schools | 54 Comments

Are Ann Arbor’s school dress codes out of date and sexist? Two high school students seem to think so.

By Mark | May 27, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, Ada Banks, a sixteen year old student at Community High, and her friend Julia Hale, a sophomore at Pioneer, drafted a petition aimed at persuading the administrators of Ann Arbor’s public high schools and middle schools to reconsider their dress codes. “As students who must follow these codes,” the two […]