Tag Archives: Ypsilanti Board of Education

Ben Edmondson to step down as Ypsilanti Community Schools superintendent

By Mark | July 23, 2018

According to MLive’s Lauren Fitch-Slagter, Dr. Ben Edmondson, the superintendent of Ypsilanti Community Schools, seen above talking with me on the Saturday Six Pack back in 2016, is going to be stepping down in mid-October. Given that the school year is set to begin in less than a month, I’m inclined to say that this […]

Posted in Education, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ben Edmondson, Maria Sheler-Edwards, Sharon Irvine, Ypsilanti Community Schools | 8 Comments

WISD and YCS approach terms on the future of the Washtenaw International Middle Academy

By Mark | March 11, 2018

Remember how, this past October, the Ypsilanti Board of Education voted to give control of the Washtenaw International Middle Academy (WIMA) over to a consortium managed by the Washtenaw Intermediate School District, and how Ypsilanti parents organized to block the deal from going through, concerned about what it might mean for both he local school […]

Posted in Education, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged International Baccalaureate, public education, schools of choice, Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium, Washtenaw Intermediate School District, Washtenaw International High School, Washtenaw International Middle Academy, WEOC, WIHI, WIMA, WISD, YCS, Ypsilanti Community Schools | 6 Comments

Washtenaw Intermediate School District leadership weighs in on the battle over Ypsi’s International Baccalaureate middle school

By Mark | October 30, 2017

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 […]

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, YIES, YPS, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Ypsilanti International Elementary School, Ypsilanti Public Schools | 23 Comments

The Great International Baccalaureate War of Ypsilanti

By Mark | October 23, 2017

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, YIES, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Ypsilanti International Elementary School | 31 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

By Mark | August 28, 2016

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 […]