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Showing posts with label schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schools. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Good, And Plenty

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Exactly three years ago I wrote a post about how I hate the "Exceptional" tag that the Ann Arbor Public Schools uses to promote th...
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Monday, August 8, 2016

Voter Registration: With Schools, Every Vote Matters

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Last week, the day after the election, I was helping a woman from Whitmore Lake complete a Medicaid application. At the end of the a...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Pedestrian Safety Report Is Out--You Can Make A Difference

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The past two days, Jews around the world marked the start of the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah. In case you're wondering what that h...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Ann Arbor’s Move to Punish Opting Out: Even For This Test-Taking Family, It’s Bad Policy

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A guest post by Naomi Zikmund-Fisher If you look at the sidebar on the right of this blog, it asks that we assume that everyone wants the...
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Saturday, March 7, 2015

Bringing Guns to School: Legal, Yes; OK, No; Kids Can't, Teachers Can't, But Others Can

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By now you know that on Thursday night, March 5th, a man named Joshua Wade--grandson of a former deputy superintendent in the Ann Arbor Pub...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Our Public Schools, Our Pride: A Bit of Manchester Schools History

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A meeting at a Manchester school building took me past Alumni Memorial Field. I liked the sign, and when I saw the plaque, I knew there m...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Answers: Holiday Gifts for Teachers

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Here are the questions, and the answers, that I got to my survey about holiday gifts for teachers. It is also applicable to year-end gifts. ...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

You Thought State Funding Couldn't Get Worse? It Can

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Eclectablog has an excellent post about the precarious state of the School Aid Fund: Aptly titled " Michigan Republicans celebrate N...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Title IX in My Life--And Yours

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A few weeks ago I was talking to my daughter's track coach about the SHARP Title IX conference that took place in Ann Arbor. Yes, she s...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Shopping this weekend?

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Perhaps you need some winter clothes for the changing seasons? This is a great opportunity to support the Ann Arbor schools as well as prac...