In case you haven’t heard on Tuesday August 7 there is a bond election for the Ypsilanti Public Schools. The district wants to raise $40 million for upgrades to the district facilities. A lot of mechanical updates are needed to school buildings to keep them up to code and safe for the kids staff. [...]
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The agenda for the June 25 Ypsi School Board meeting is out and Tom Reiber has put the following item on the action items list.     h. Ypsilanti High School Nickname Reinstatement Recommendation (Enclosure #9) All of us with some common sense need to call Mr. Reiber and tell him that the students [...] Last Monday night I made the following statement before the Ypsilanti Public Schools Board of Trustees during the public comments and I wanted to share it here. I’ve got two kids in the Ypsilanti Schools. My daughter has been in the Ypsilanti public schools for ten years and my son for seven. In that [...] A couple of weeks ago I got to see and photograph the 1967 Cadillac Eldorado that the RCTC collision repair students rebuilt and I today I put up a post on Autoblog.com about it. You can check out the post and photo gallery here. [...] The School Board selected two new members tonight to fill the vacancies left by the resignations of Amy Doyle and Cam Getto. Eric Temple and Sarah Devaney are now members of the board for the next year until they have to run for election. The recordings of the interviews are up on the podcast [...] An article in the Ann Arbor News today makes it appear that the Monroe school district suppressed information about Layne Hunt’s tenure as th high school principal there just so they could get rid of him. The tale of Hunt’s experiences there sound almost exactly like what has happened at Ypsi High this year. [...] I’ve avoided writing about the conflict surrounding the resignation of Layne Hunt as high school principal because I didn’t know enough about what was going on in private, but now it’s time to speak up. During the last three Ypsilanti School Board meetings leading up to the resignation of High School principal Layne Hunt, [...] In case you haven’t heard Cameron Getto resigned from the Ypsilanti School Board today. We all Cam thanks for stepping up and serving on the board for the past couple of years. He always did what he thought was best for the students and the district. He’s had to deal with a lot of [...] The first part of the recording of last night’s school board meeting is up on the podcast site. Part 2 will be up later this evening, although part 1 contains all the public comments and board discussion of the big issue. If you’re not already subscribed to the podcast, just click on the Ypsi [...] I’m on the Ypsilanti Public Schools technology committee, and right now we’re trying to figure out what the technology needs of the district are in preparation for the upcoming bond vote. The technology in the schools hasn’t been significantly updated since the last bond 10 years ago. Although much of what was implemented at [...] |
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