Schools in Michigan have been scaling back budgets for years now, as the rocky economy has chipped away at the state budget. It's meant layoffs, and larger class sizes. But in turmoil, schools have also gotten creative. Hear how area schools have...
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There will be a few less teachers at Traverse City Area Public Schools next year. And some busing will be outsourced, costing nearly thirty drivers their jobs. Those were some of the cuts approved by the school board last night. After the...
Schools in Michigan have been scaling back budgets for years now, as the rocky economy has chipped away at the state budget. It's meant layoffs, and larger class sizes. But in turmoil, schools have also gotten creative.
Our series on...
After years of funding cuts, and no end in sight, schools all over are facing similar problems. They have to keep recruiting students because that's the key to increasing revenue. But they also have to balance the books.
Everyone in...
Traverse City Area Public Schools is just starting a very difficult budget process, where leaders will have to find ways to trim more than eight million dollars for...
The head of Traverse City's teachers' union asked school board members Monday night to slow down on the budget process. Administrators want more than three...
A shuttered Montessori Middle school in Traverse City could reopen this fall. The Greenspire School is on the grounds of the Village at Grand Traverse Commons. It opened in the fall of 2004... and closed in the spring of 2007....
Thursday was the deadline for schools around Michigan to sign up for the Race to the Top. That's the name of the Obama administration's plan to reform public...
Administrators at Traverse City Area Public Schools say about half of the budget cuts needed for next year should come out of employee salaries and benefits....
This week on Points North we listen back to some of the stories we told over the last year. Hear about the situation facing cherry farmers as they prepare to give up the main pesticide in their arsenal. Find out what is happening with struggling...
