School districts across Michigan are making cuts again as lean times continue for public education.
Yet this week also marks the anniversary of a revolution in...
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Local school districts are preparing to make budget cuts, even though state lawmakers are agreeing to spend more money on education next year. That's because Michigan...
Public meetings are scheduled this week at Traverse City schools to discuss the failed bond millage last fall. Close to 60 percent of voters rejected a plan to spend...
A friend of Interlochen died this week. Concert pianist Van Cliburn became an international star at age 23 when he won the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow. Not long...
Some voters in the Traverse City area have sticker shock over a school millage proposal on the ballot next week. TCAPS has identified 100-million dollars of improvements to old buildings, classrooms, and other parts of the district's...
First grade teachers at Eastern Elementary School in Traverse City recently had their students paint their vision of what a caring heart looked like. From those individual...
Traverse City elementary schools will add world language classes, without cutting into time for learning music and art. The TCAPS board voted last night to add world...
School officials in Traverse City could decide tonight whether to add world language instruction to the elementary curriculum at the expense of the arts.
TCAPS...
In a few years, high school graduates in Michigan will be required to know a second language. Finding the time and money to teach world languages well is a challenge...
UPDATE: 10/12/2011 Musician Jeff Haas believes a jazz combo can be a little like society. All the elements have to work together. This week, his program Building Bridges with Music is expected to be featured in a national story on CNN....
