Traverse City Area Pubic Schools has reached a tentative deal with its teachers' union.
No details have been released.
Members of the Traverse...
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Student musicians from Traverse City are improving their playing by leaps and bounds this summer thanks to the Archipelago Project, a day music camp for students from 6th to 12th grades that lets students practice with the pros. IPR's Brad...
It's likely hundreds fewer displaced Northern Michigan workers will find themselves in the classroom this fall.
Unemployment's risen, but funding's also...
A new report of the Annie E. Casey Foundation says one-out-of-five children in Michigan were living in poverty in 2007. The rate jumped 36-percent since...
On the July program of Michigan Writers on the Air, host Aaron Stander chats with Peter Makin, owner of Brilliant Books in Suttons Bay, about the book business in this region. In the middle poet and essayist Fleda Brown provides a thoughtful...
Benzie County may have an alternative high school opening this fall.
Alternative schools are designed for students who have trouble learning in a traditional...
Governor Granholm has vows to protect the Michigan Promise scholarship from the budget axe. But Granholm administration officials will not rule out reducing the size of the scholarships.
The governor is engaged in budget talks with the...
University of Michigan economists predict the state's jobless rate will peak at more than 16 percent next year. Michigan's unemployment rate is already the nation's highest, at 14 percent.
The U of M economists have released a...
Advocates of early-childhood education are bristling against the budget passed in the state Senate before its summer break. Budget wrangling at the state Capitol is far from over, but the Senate's current budget includes cuts in per-pupil K-12...
Doug French thinks the local tax support for Northwestern Michigan College may not be in line with the reality of who benefits from having a college in Traverse City. He thinks it's an issue that deserves some consideration.
