FARMINGTON HILLS North Farmington students and faculty made out well at the Michigan Association of Student Council and Honor Societies Student Leadership Conference, headlined by Joe Greene winning Principal of the Year honors.
U.S. News & World Report released its annual rankings of 24,000 public high schools with Oakland County’s International Academy again among the top 50 nationwide.
International Academy, a consortium which has about 1,500 students who reside in 13 Oakland County school districts including Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Huron Valley and South Lyon, ranked third in Michigan and 43rd nationwide.
Also ranking in the top 10 in Michigan were Novi High School at #7 and Northville High School, #10.
“Part of the reason we do well on rankings like this is that all of our students and families understand when they enroll in ninth grade that we are an all International Baccalaureate high school,” Associate Principal Chris Smith said. “It’s highly rigorous, the most challenging program a student in the United States can sign up for in high school… It attracts students who are highly motivated for an academic program.”
FPS gets new facilities director
Farmington Public Schools recently announced that Jon Barth would take over as the district’s director of facilities.
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FARMINGTON The Farmington Public Schools Board of Education unanimously approved the hiring of Jon Barth as the district’s new director of facilities recently.
Barth replaces Felicia Venable, who left the district earlier this year. Barth comes to the district with a background in the area of school operations, according to the district. He previously served as the operations facilities director for the Berkley School District, a role he held since 2017. Prior to that he served in a variety of facilities management roles in various school districts.
This obituary is part of “We Will Remember,” a series about those we’ve lost to the coronavirus.
Dale Stern, an amputee from Warren, used his talents to help design handicap-accessible vehicles and prostheses before he was laid off as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The computer-aided design engineer died at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak on Nov. 21 after becoming ill with the coronavirus.
Stern, 47, was a graduate of North Farmington High School who returned to school in his 30s to create a better life for himself and his daughter, according to his brother Andrew Stern. He earned an associate degree in CAD Design and a bachelor s degree in construction management from ITT Tech.
Four Farmington Public Schoolsâ seniors were honored by the College Board National African American Recognition Program.
The selected students were Terrence Bartell, senior class president, and Alden Wiredu, of North Farmington High School, and Cameron Duplessis and Eric Winston of Farmington High School. Through this designation, the teens received academic honors, and they were connected with universities across the country.
To qualify to receive a College Board National Recognition, students must identify as African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Indigenous, and/or attend school in a rural area or small town; achieve the minimum requested PSAT/NMSQT score; and earn a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher by the middle of their junior year.