Members of the second grade at Custer Elementary School raised nearly $500 for the Humane Society of Monroe, had a good time doing it and their teachers were able to have all of the activities fit together as part of the school’s regular curriculum, too. A second grade math lesson is called the T-Shirt Factory but the teachers changed it to a Dog and Cat Gram Factor...
Grant Prater, a junior at Monroe High School, received a President’s Volunteer Service Award signed by President Obama from MHS Principal Mrs. Sandra Kreps, in a ceremony March 8 at the Monroe Public Schools Board of Education meeting. It was one of two awards Grant won as part of the 2016 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. He also was recognized as a distinguished fina...
Throughout Monroe Public Schools, students and staff have the advantage of the latest educational technology in classrooms at every level. Much of the money used for technology purchases comes from the Monroe County Educational Technology Millage. To see a good example of technology at work in our classrooms, please check out the link below. https://youtu.be/3Hdw8phsYTQ
The Monroe High School Boy's Basketball game against the Saline Hornets tonight will be broadcast live at 7 p.m. tonight on monroecountyradio.com. Jeff Yorkey and Jarod Calkins will handle play-by-play of tonight's game. To listen to the game, just go to monroecountyradio.com and click on Listen Live.
Due to icy and snowy road conditions in the district, there will be no school for Monroe Public Schools today, Thursday, February 25. In addition, kid’s club at Riverside and Custer will be cancelled for today and all after-school activities are cancelled, too, including all Community Education classes and activities. Repeating there will be no school today for Monroe Public Sch...
The Monroe Public Schools Board of Education has asked the school district’s administration to look into the possibility of razing the former South Monroe Townsite School and selling the property on which the school now stands. The school has been used in recent years for the Head Start program of the Monroe County Intermediate School District and for Monroe Virtual High School. ...
There will be a half-day of classes for Monroe Public Schools students on Wednesday, February 24. Pre-school at Riverside will operate on its normal schedule, and kid’s club at Custer and Riverside will operate on the regular schedules, too. Once again, students will have a half-day of classes on Wednesday, February 24.
There’s an old joke that goes, “Hey, how do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice.” For four Monroe Middle School musicians, the question is similar. “Hey how do you get to Detroit’s Orchestra Hall? Practice.” And practice they did which paid off big when four members of the Monroe Middle School Band were selected to perform with the ...
The efforts of the Monroe High School Student Council and students/staff at Waterloo Elementary School were captured in a photo essay in Sunday's Monroe News. What a great thing they did for taking water to Flint residents. Copy and paste the link below to your browser to read the story. http://www.monroenews.com/news/20160221/we-had-to-do-something