On the evening of Tuesday, October 17, members of the Ypsilanti Community Schools Board of Education, without any public debate, voted 4-2 in favor of a plan to hand over control of Ypsi’s Washtenaw International Middle Acadey (WIMA) to the Washtenaw Educational Options Consotrium (WEOC), the organization that currently operates the regionally-funded, and Ypsilanti-based Washtenaw […]
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Washtenaw Intermediate School District leadership weighs in on the battle over Ypsi’s International Baccalaureate middle school
Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bert Okma, debt, diversity, East Middle School, economic segregation, extractive colonialism, International Baccalaureate, Maria Sheler-Edwards, Naomi Norman, opportunity index, public education, school consolidation, schools of choice, Scott Menzel, segregation, threats to public education, Washtenaw Educational Options Consotrium, Washtenaw Intermediate School District, Washtenaw International High School, WEOC, West Middle School, WIHI, WIMA, WISD, YCS, YPS, Ypsilanti Board of Education, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Ypsilanti International Elementary School, Ypsilanti Public Schools | 23 Comments
The Great International Baccalaureate War of Ypsilanti
Earlier this summer, I heard that the administrative staff and teachers at the Washtenaw International Middle Academy (WIMA), Ypsilanti’s International Baccalaureate middle school, had begun advocating for a plan that would see them leave Ypsilanti Community Schools (YCS), and join the Washtenaw International High School (WIHI) beneath the umbrella of the Washtenaw Intermediate School District’s […]
Posted in Education, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Betsy DeVos, charter schools, for-profit charter schools, International Baccalaureate, Maria Sheler-Edwards, Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium, Washtenaw Intermediate School District, Washtenaw International High School, Washtenaw International Middle Academy, WEOC, WIHI, Willow Run, WIMA, WISD, Ypsilanti Board of Education, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Ypsilanti International Elementary School | 31 Comments