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By Peter Payette and Linda Stephan

Traverse City Area Public Schools ran afoul of the Michigan Campaign Finance Act during the last election, according to a letter issued Thursday by...

By Peter Payette

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...

By Linda Stephan

A former elementary school north of Traverse City remains vacant, a sale pending for more than a year. School district officials say the holdup lies with the federal...

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...

By Linda Stephan

The Traverse City community is rallying behind a longstanding advocate for local school music programs and a fixture with the National Cherry...

By Tom Kramer and Rick Pluta

  University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman says Michigan's higher education institutions will make a strong bid for federal grants to develop...

By Tom Kramer

A former teacher at Traverse City West Senior High is accused of sexual contact with an underage student. Lisa Placek taught in the Traverse City Area Public Schools from...

By Peter Payette

Traverse City Area Public Schools will reopen one of the elementary schools it closed in 2007. The district plans to add to its growing list of...

Schools have to do a lot with the money they get from the state. One thing they are not required to do is organize sports. But as school officials face large budget deficits, many realize that there is a mandate to for athletics, it's from the...

On Monday Traverse City schools cut more than five million dollars from its budget for next year. That will mean eliminating almost forty positions, including many teaching jobs. But the teachers' union could stop those layoffs if it agrees to a...

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