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Tuesday’s Election Day turned out to be a good day for education in Kent County, with voters passing bond issues, sinking funds and/or operating millages in all six districts with ballot proposals.
If passed, it will pay for expenses such as transportation and facilities maintenance.
Districts on the hunt for 3,000 missing students Schools seek to reconnect with families following enrollment losses All districts – Where did they all go? That’s what educators across Kent County and statewide have been trying to find out since learning of a dramatic drop in K-12 enrollment this fall – by some 53,000 students across Michigan and 3,000 in Kent ISD public schools. Local districts large and small have taken hits to their student counts – and their budgets – as pandemic learning scattered families looking for options. Many parents held their children back from kind...