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Friday, May 17, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs Board of Education. The ruling established that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

The East Lansing Public School Board met on Oct. 9 for their first school board meeting of the month. Board members listened to the progress and plan for the professional development days on five …

East Lansings Board of Education made their announcements Monday evening.

The East Lansing Board of Education assembled Monday night for an at times contentious public meeting about school safety. The evening ended with trustee Kath Edsall's resignation as board president.

Incumbents fared well in two high-profile mid-Michigan school board races on Tuesday.

This year, 10 candidates are running for four seats on the East Lansing Board of Education. WKAR asked each of the candidates why voters should elect them as board members.

A proposal before Michigan voters would create one of the largest voucher-like systems in the country, with the potential to offer more than a half-billion dollars in public funds for students to attend private schools. There’s just one hitch: Most residents have never heard of it. In a recent statewide poll, 93% of the electorate […]

A homework assignment on slavery drew sharp criticism after its graphic imagery distressed at least one Black family in East Lansing Public Schools.  Chelsea Wade said her daughter, an eighth grader at MacDonald Middle School, completed an assignment during Black History Month that presented violent images and descriptions of slaves, slave quarters and rebellions, then asked students to imagine themselves as enslaved people. The assignment traumatized her daughter and the entire fam...