State Restores $11 per Pupil Funding

The News Herald: Breaking news coverage for Southgate, MI.

Downriver school superintendents are in a holding pattern, wondering if an $11 per-pupil restoration to state aid funding will stay in place.

The state school aid budget bill for the 2010-11 fiscal year was approved by the state House of representatives and the Senate, and signed [...]

Allen Park Schools Recall Employees

The jobs of eight employees in the school district were the last to be restored Monday, eliminating all of the district’s initial cuts.

The Board of Education recalled three teachers, four Title I teaching aides and a reading aide at Monday’s meeting. The vote was 6-0. Trustee Gordon Miller was absent.

In addition, eight jobs [...]

School Enrollment

Open enrollment

applications available

Applications for the Allen Park Public Schools’ schools of choice program for second and fourth grades in the second semester will be available Jan. 18 at the Riley Center, 9601 Vine.

Applications must be presented in person to the Child Accounting Office at the Riley Center no later than Jan. 29. [...]