Monday, December 10, 2012
Children invited to "A Christmas Carol" will play games, enjoy lunch, make crafts, visit with Santa, and receive gifts.
A holiday party for a very deserving group of children is in the works at Dakota High School. The school’s National Honor Society is planning – and paying for – a party the members affectionately call, "A Christmas Carol," although there won’t be any Ebenzer Scrooge’s at this event. The guest list is comprised of 76 children, ages three months through 16 years, along with 40 Dakota NHS volunteers. Invitations were sent to homeless families registered through the Macomb Intermediate School District, as well as Turning Point and other shelters. Besides 70 Hungry Howies pizzas, the kids will enjoy veggie and fruit trays, cookies and drinks. They’ll also complete holiday crafts and decorate cupcakes. Later, they will burn off all the sugary …
Monday, June 18, 2012
As of June 14, the end of the 2011-12 academic year, the MISD had identified 1,126 homeless students across the county. This represents a more than 100 percent increase over the past five years.
As teachers across Macomb County compute final grades for the 2011-12 school year, the Macomb Intermediate School District is considering the implications of a much different calculation, namely, the now record number of homeless students in the county. At the end of 2011, 665 homeless students were identified and assisted by the MISD—a then 41 percent increase over the previous year. However, as of June 14, the close of the 2011-12 academic year, the MISD had identified 1,126 homeless students who will need assistance for fall 2012. Those students represent some 537 Macomb County families with approximately 2,065 members, including parents and children below school age. More than 80 percent of these families have never been homeless …
Monday, May 7, 2012
A race and fund-raiser, this first "Run the Plank" event will also collect used shoes for Souls4Soles and use registration fees to benefit Macomb County's homeless education project.
If organizers of Macomb Township’s first “Run the Plank” 5K get their wish, more than 1,500 pairs of feet will trek northward on Romeo Plank Road June 30. Hosted by Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Isidore Catholic Church and St. Peter Lutheran Church, this community-wide run/walk is the first event of its kind in Macomb and the first on which the three parishes have collaborated. “It’s a great opportunity for a community building event,” said Mike Fontana, race chair and St. Isidore parishioner. “This is three local parishes wanting to do good for the community. It’s the first time these churches have ever partnered and so far the partnership has been very good.” Scheduled for June 30, “Run the Plank” is, as its name suggests, a race along …
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Friday, December 30, 2011
With reductions in state welfare, homeless children and their families will rely more on local agencies and school districts for aid in the new year.
Home to sprawling suburbs, shopping centers and Blue Ribbon schools, Macomb County does not fit the description of an area to know homelessness. But it does. In the four school districts that serve Macomb Township, 206 students were reported as homeless by the Michigan Department of Education in 2011. In the county, 665 homeless students have been identified and assisted by the Macomb Intermediate School District this year—a 41 percent increase over last year said MISD Homeless Education Liaison Kathleen Kropf. And though the term “homeless” may summon images of cardboard boxes beneath freeway overpasses, the 2002 McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (Subtitle VII-B) defines “homeless children and youth” only as those who lack “a fixed…
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Jenny Whalen
11:54 am on Monday, June 18, 2012
You hit the nail on the head, Dagmar. How can students focus on their education when they're worrying about where their family will be sleeping that night? You do hear about those select few who break the cycle - manage to get all A's, snag a scholarship, go to Harvard - but that is not the norm. more ›