School board prepares to appoint new superintendent
Grosse Pointe Public School System Superintendent Gary Niehaus announced his retirement during a Sept. 14 board meeting held in a virtual format.
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GROSSE POINTES The Grosse Pointe Public School System Board of Education is on its way to naming a new superintendent.
The school board plans to appoint the district’s new top administrator May 12 after conducting final interviews May 11-12.
On April 28, the school board had narrowed the field of candidates down to two: Jon Dean, deputy superintendent for GPPSS, and Stephen Bigelow, Bay City Public Schools superintendent. School officials provided background information on both candidates on the district’s website at www.gpschools.org.
On April 26, the Grosse Pointe Foundation for Public Education announced grants for its spring cycle. Pictured, front row, left to right: Kathy Fisk, GPFPE board member and grants committee co-chair; Courtney Kliman, Defer Elementary; Karen Gallagher, Parcells Middle School; Erika Stout-Kirck, Parcells; and Christie Scoggin, GFPPE vice president and grants committee co-chair.Back row, left to right: Tom Torrento, Parcells Middle School and Grosse Pointe North High School; Principal John Kernan, Richard Elementary; and Nicholas Symonette Jr., Parcells Middle School.
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Grosse Pointe Foundation for Public Education spring grant recipients announced
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GROSSE POINTES There are many times during Grosse Pointe Public School System educators’ careers in which they would like to bring in certain programs or have students become involved in special projects.
Teachers in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe took matters into their own hands by calling off sick after their school board cut safety measures and refused to go virtual even as record numbers of children are hospitalized across the state.
Grosse Pointe students stay present while over 100 teachers in sick-out
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Attendance Friday at Grosse Pointe Public Schools was business as usual despite more than 100 district teachers staying home from work this week and rumors that students would be calling in sick en masse.
After some students indicated they planned to call in sick in solidarity with their teachers, Superintendent Gary Niehaus pleaded with parents to keep their kids in class. Now is the time to set aside our differences and finish the school year strong. In this spirit, please do not keep your student home tomorrow or any other day, Niehaus wrote Thursday night in a letter to parents. This accomplishes nothing other than disrupts the learning environment and divides those conflicted between their sense of loyalty and sense of duty.
Grosse Pointe teacher resigns after board implements new COVID policy;Â teachers call out sick in support
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Grosse Pointe teachers call out sick after boardâs COVID decision
Following Monday s controversial COVID-19 policy decision by the Grosse Pointe board, one teacher resigned and 116 others called out sick on Wednesday in solidarity.
Teachers in the Grosse Pointe Public School district called out sick Wednesday after a well-liked teacher resigned following a contentious school board meeting. They said the board s new COVID-19 policy is putting the staff and students at risk.
Grosse Pointe North teacher Sean McCarroll resigned at Monday s school board meeting when the board voted to relax COVID protocols for in-person learning that he and other teachers say put more people at risk.