Each week, the Grand Haven Tribune highlights the ongoing efforts in West Michigan schools through the Classroom of the Week feature.

The sound of chopping carried into a local school hallway Tuesday morning.

FRUITPORT — The community has a final opportunity to walk the hallways of the current Fruitport High School.

A summer reading program made an impact in local student reading levels.

Each week, the Grand Haven Tribune highlights the ongoing efforts in West Michigan schools through the Classroom of the Week feature.

Learning may not always happen in a classroom, but instead could be in a park, along the lakeshore or in many more places.

Each week, the Grand Haven Tribune highlights the ongoing efforts in West Michigan schools through the Classroom of the Week feature.

Trips to Washington, D.C., are becoming routine for Grand Haven Area Public Schools, as is national recognition for the district’s commitment to student achievement.

Each week, the Grand Haven Tribune highlights the ongoing efforts in West Michigan schools through the Classroom of the Week feature.

Handmade thank-you notes dangled from the ceiling as red, white and blue decorations adorned Michelle Maitner’s classroom walls on Tuesday.

Each week, the Grand Haven Tribune highlights the ongoing efforts in West Michigan schools through the Classroom of the Week feature.

Kyle Mayer, Ph.D., assistant superintendent for instructional services at the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District, has been reappointed for another two-year term on a state literacy commission.

Each week, the Grand Haven Tribune highlights the ongoing efforts in West Michigan schools through the Classroom of the Week feature.

Although Grand Haven’s chicken ordinance is in the books, some students at Lakeshore Middle School put themselves in the City Council’s shoes on Monday.

Each week, the Grand Haven Tribune highlights the ongoing efforts in West Michigan schools through the Classroom of the Week feature.

SPRING LAKE — Taxpayers in the Spring Lake school district are expected to save with the refunding of existing bonds.

Last fall, Ewan Johnson found that getting a good night’s sleep was becoming increasingly difficult. Johnson, then a junior studying strategic communications and political science at Temple University, was juggling three jobs and leadership positions in his extracurricular clubs on top of a …

FRUITPORT TWP. — As crews continue working on the new two-story Fruitport High School building, residents will soon have an opportunity to see the work firsthand.

FRUITPORT TWP. — “We are Family” played through the school’s speakers as students found their friends and headed into classrooms.

Each week, the Grand Haven Tribune highlights the ongoing efforts in West Michigan schools through the Classroom of the Week feature.

GRAND HAVEN TWP. — From hands-on experiences to connecting with local professionals, high school students on Tuesday learned more about career opportunities in West Michigan.

The Class of 2022 won this year's Grand Haven High School Homecoming banner competition. 

Each week, the Grand Haven Tribune highlights the ongoing efforts in West Michigan schools through the Classroom of the Week feature.

In addition to teaching the curriculum, educators have another issue they’ve been working to tackle – vaping.

HOLLAND — Cuts to the state budget from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could cost Hope College students nearly $2 million. Whitmer used a line-item veto to eliminate the Michigan Tuition Grant and reduced the maximum amount of money available to private college students in the Michigan Competitive Sc…

Attendance had a greater meaning for Michigan school districts on Wednesday.

As music played, students ran around Griffin Elementary School and past the playground on Friday.

GRAND HAVEN TWP. — Bucco high-fived Rosy Mound Elementary School students as they ran past him Friday morning.

From pine trees and pine cones to pigs and pandas, the visions for 3-D mascots are coming to life at White Pines Intermediate School.

GRAND HAVEN TWP. — Blue streamers flew through the air and balloons bounced among students Thursday afternoon at Peach Plains Elementary School.

Colorful letters, numbers and planets arranged along the floor at one Grand Haven school is getting students’ attention.

Another group of Grand Haven school district employees will receive a pay increase for the coming year.

FERRYSBURG — A local tuition-free charter school is working to deepen its integration of the arts.

Michigan families are facing a college affordability crisis caused by a “perfect storm” of falling wages and state disinvestment in higher education, according to a new report released Friday.

FRUITPORT — Fruitport Community Schools is looking for mentors for students of all ages.

Michigan schools are increasingly unable to find enough substitute teachers to fill their classrooms, a shortage that threatens to impact learning in the state’s already struggling public education system.

It was an unscientific experiment by administrators at Anderson Middle School in Berkley: Take smartphones away from students at lunchtime on Fridays and watch what happens.

MUSKEGON — A team of students from Muskegon’s Culinary Institute of Michigan, a division of Baker College, won the 2019 American Culinary Federation Knowledge Bowl National Championship.