Foundation for Excellence Partnership Grants KPS High School Free Transportation
Olivia Ely
June 14, 2019
Loy Norrix students, Tayvon Davis and Jeremiah Nelson, board the bus at the 2:45 stop to head home. With the new agreement, KPS students will ride for free beginning in the 2019-2020 school year. In the summer of 2018, The Foundation for Excellence was given 70 million dollars to fund projects for K...
Junior Loses the Kalamazoo Promise
May 9, 2019
By Dylann Meek “When me and my mother went to the office to change the address, that’s when the secretary told me I was out of district and would not get the [Kalamazoo] Promise,” said junior Nakia Brown. At the beginning of her junior year, Nakia Brown lost the Kalamazoo Promise after moving ...
A Fresh Perspective: Loy Norrix Welcomes New Principal
November 28, 2018
From principals being put on administrative leave to the hiring of new assistant principals, Loy Norrix has experienced many changes in administration throughout the last two years alone. Last school year, we welcomed Johnny Edwards, the current Director of Secondary Education to Norrix as our interi...
Opening Our Arms to Ottawa’s Own
Noah Bond
October 2, 2018
Serving an American public school district is a welcome opportunity for Canadian-trained nurse, Jennifer Macfarlane. Macfarlane started her nursing career in neurosurgery at The Ottawa Hospital in 2008. The Ottawa Hospital, located in the capital of Canada, has delivered more than six thousand babie...
Getting Graded on Giving Grades: Teachers Discontented with the Evaluation Process
Anna Kushner
April 25, 2018
“When an administrator walks in the room, the students’ demeanor automatically changes to one that is more guarded, and their nervous energy sometimes transcends to my own,” said drama teacher Paige Carrow. Recently, many teachers at Loy Norrix and within the Kalamazoo Public Schools community ha...
Early Intro to Health Careers II: WMed Educates Sophomores
March 14, 2018
In recent years, a new program has popped up to help high school sophomores all around Kalamazoo. The Early Introduction to Health Careers II Program is a pipeline program that was started in 2015 by Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine to expose teens to the possi...
What it’s Like to be in an EFE: The Surprising Truth
Zach Skinner
March 2, 2018
Education for Employment (EFE) programs provide unique experiences for high school students. The mission statement for EFE programs is ”It is our job to prepare today’s students for tomorrow's careers.” According to their website EFE programs this by providing a jump-start on career and post-s...
Teacher Contract Negotiations Puts a Strain on Kalamazoo Public Schools and its Teachers
Anna Kushner
October 21, 2017
If you were to walk into Miller Auditorium on August 28, 2017, you would have seen a sea of black-clothed teachers sitting silent in solidarity. Every year the Kalamazoo Public Schools District adopts a budget for the upcoming fiscal year. From this budget the district then adopts a teacher salary co...
Renovations Leave Loy Norrix With a Fresher and Cleaner Look
Olivia Ely
October 6, 2017
The KPS district is hoping to revitalize the look of Loy Norrix and give Norrix a better reputation as well as attract more students and families. “The district [KPS] is pushing and doing what it takes to keep our school up and going,” said Principal Rodney Prewitt. The renovation inclu...
Waiting for Weighting: Kalamazoo Public Schools Should Weight the KAMSC Classes on a 5.0 Scale
June 12, 2017
Guest Writer Nathan Goodwin-Kelly On most weeknights, there are numerous students staying up late into the night, studying and completing assignments. The Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center is attended by a small portion of Kalamazoo area students. Students take math, science and computer scien...
Kalamazoo Public Schools Lengthen Foreign Language & Math Classes In Hopes of Boosting Student Achievement
Nora Hilgart-Griff
May 19, 2017
On December 16, 2016, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning Services Cindy Green presented several recommendations to the School Board for changes in the current Kalamazoo Public Schools (KPS) curriculum. The most dramatic change that would affect KPS high schoolers is the transition of...
