Flat Rock
Flat Rock, MI · Education
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The Blade
Editorial: Quit passing the buck, TPS
A parent of a special needs child in Toledo Public Schools shouldn’t have to go to a Toledo school board meeting to complain about service. Instead of getting the attention to her child’s needs, Katie Mattimoe Heffernan was told that the teachers union and the school district’s human resources department are working to “expedite getting paraprofessionals in the needed position.” Read more Blade editorials The fact that the parent felt the need to take her concern to the full board suggests more emphasis is needed for the “expedite” part. Ms. Heffernan is concerned that her child at Beverly Elementary School, who has Down syndrome, is being ignored in the classroom. Ms. Heffernan was forced to reveal in public personal issues involving her daughter that she should not have been required to complain about to the board. This was reported last Wednesday by The Blade’s Eric Taunton. The problem, as Ms. Heffernan sees it, is that Beverly has only one assigned building-wide paraprofessional. This was her second time bringing this issue to the board. A similar response was given to her on Sept. 22. At that time, the board had 244 paraprofessionals, but 43 vacant positions. “To date, my daughter has
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Saline School Board Honors Three Outgoing Trustees
Featured photo: 2025-26 student representative Jillian Hayes stands with Saline Area Schools leaders and Board of Education members after being thanked for her service May 26. Photo by Heather Finch. Three Saline Area Schools Board of Education members received a warm sendoff Oct. 27 as colleagues reflected on their contributions...
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News-Herald
Taylor School District unveils high school renovation proposal
The Taylor School District has unveiled a high school renovation project, five years after voters approved a $130 million bond that was to fund a new building. The renovations will focus on improving security, increasing natural light in classrooms and centralizing the ninth-grade academy, according to a district presentation at a school board meeting on Thursday, Oct. 29.
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Extending the Walls of the Classroom: Cheryl Hoeft’s Lifetime of Service to Saline
Every group has needs and giving freely of your time and energy pays back in so many ways. Besides meeting people, you become aware of other aspects of your community and how they operate. It is truly a learning experience. – Cheryl Hoeft. Cheryl Hoeft has lived in Saline...
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Beyond the Crown: A New Kind of Homecoming Honor
Spirit Champion becomes the new norm; the less problematic version of homecoming court. Now, students support and vote on each other to embrace the change for the betterment of the Chelsea culture. “What I like about the spirit champion is that it truly helps to embody and promote somebody who...
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The Detroit News
New Hazel Park school superintendent was paid $230K to leave Taylor
When the Hazel Park School Board appointed an interim superintendent this summer and declined to provide any information about him, parent Jennifer Jackson watched in disbelief and then took the only recourse she could think of. She filed a public records request. A Google search revealed he was the former superintendent of Taylor Public Schools, so Jackson started there, filing a Freedom of Information Act request for any records about his performance and departure. What she got back, she quickly shared with the Hazel Park board in an Aug. 17 committee meeting during the public comment period. Standing at the podium, both hands clutched around her phone, Jackson revealed Hazel Park's new leader, Griff Mills, had left his position in Taylor early due at least in part to an evaluation that found him "minimally effective." He signed a voluntary separation agreement worth about $230,000 with the board to leave. On Oct. 26, in a 4-3 vote, the board made Mills its permanent superintendent without addressing his past at the Downriver area district, without any public vetting and without a search process. "Still to this day, even if he has been here two months, we know nothing about him," board member