The Learning Bank of Monroe has received two grants totaling $5,500 from the Community Foundation of Monroe County to help provide testing and make it easier for some students to get to the learning facility at E. First and Winchester Streets. A $4,500 grant will be used to purchase testing materials. Each testing module costs $37.50 but most students have to comple...
The Arborwood Elementary Campus of the Monroe Public Schools’ facilities has achieved Green School status through the Michigan Green Schools initiative. Michigan Green Schools is a non-profit agency dedicated to helping all Michigan schools achieve environmental goals which include protecting the air, land, water and animals of Michigan along with world outreach thr...
Monroe High School senior Morgan Kline earned a Division 1 rating for her violin solo at the recent Michigan School Band and Orchestra State Solo and Ensemble Festival at Chelsea High School. In addition she passed a Proficiency II exam in sight reading and scales which is very significant. In that, students have to earn an 85 percent or higher score to pass. Besides their solos...
The next early release day for Monroe Public Schools students will be Wednesday, April 20, but Monroe High School students will go a full day that day. Excused early that day are all district elementary schools, Monroe Middle School and Orchard Center High School. Monroe High School students will attend class all day – 7:23 a.m. to 2:12 p.m. -- on April 20 because they need to receive...
The City of Monroe will celebrate Arbor Day with the students at Arborwood Elementary Campus on April 29 and plant 14 trees along Riverview Ave. in the process. The celebration of Arbor Day is especially important in the City of Monroe because (Julius) Sterling Morton, teh founder of Arbor Day, lived in Monroe from 1834 to 1854. To help promote the many beneficial uses of wood, M...
More than 200 students at Monroe Middle School earned all-A's in the recently completed third quarter of this school year. That is roughly one in four students at MMS achieving all-A's. Congratulations. We are proud of you. The list is attached to this posting. In all, 107 eighth graders earned all A's and 88 seventh graders achieved all A's, too.
They might not be household names in doing commercials like Paul W. Smith and Michael Buffer, but Raisinville Elementary's Cole Mayes and Custer Elementary's Ellie Marchese sure know their "products" and make convincing ad voices for the upcoming kindergarten registration, which is next week at the Riverside Early Learning Center. Click on the accompanying files to hear th...
Monroe High School student Natalie Lake will advance to the National Conference of the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) competition after earning a bronze medal at the state HOSA competition in Traverse City this past weekend. Natalie took a bronze medal in Nurse Assisting and is invited to the National Conference in Nashville in June. She is the only student from Monroe County...
Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 19, is the last day of testing with different start and dismissal times at Monroe High School. For our 11th graders who will be testing, they will report to school at the regular time and bussing will be provided for them. Attendance is extremely important for this final phase of state testing, so 11th graders please make sure you are here at school. Our...
Nine projects in Monroe Public Schools’ classrooms have received mini-grants funded by the Education Foundation of Monroe Public Schools. Together, the grants totaled about $4,000. The Foundation’s mini-grant program is the only one of its kind at a Monroe County school district. A number of the grants deal with technology ...