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In an agreement with the City of Muskegon, Consumers Energy will remove mid-block lights in the neighborhoods as long as the remaining lights still comply with certain criteria laid down by the city.
Bryant described the conflicting requirements placed on the district: cut the positions and comply with the deficit reduction plan required by the state, or fill the positions to comply with state requirements concerning special ed staffing.
Andrew Trzaska | May 24, 2011 The Muskegon Heights school board and Superintendent Dr. Dana Bryant set a new tone of optimism and unity for the district at Monday’s full board meeting. With the possibility of state intervention in the cash-strapped district’s operations, Monday’s meeting spoke less on the difficulties the district faces but on cooperation and understanding. Numerous times, board members, other staff present at the meeting and Dr. Bryant himself emphasized the family-like community that develops among those […]
The plan is designed to make cuts across the board. On the chopping block: summer recruitment efforts, 30 teachers, 5 administrators, 5 parapros, 17 support staff, $200K for community education, several varsity and JV sports, all swimming pools in the district, and much more.
Muskegon's school board voted to not just pink-slip some segments of its employee base, but to send out non-renewal notices to all who are employed by the district. While no one is necessarily out of a job yet, no one knows for sure they will be employed after July 1 either.
With budget figures from Lansing still up in the air, Muskegon Heights school board president Avery Burrel noted their district will try to work with other districts to weather cuts that may hit the whole county.
Andrew Trzaska | April 3, 2011 Monday’s school board meeting actually saw votes on the recall, not elimination of several staff members, including several in the school’s Technology department. The Board voted to recall several staff members, most hired back on a contract basis. School Superintendent Dr. Dana Bryant stressed that while the school is beginning to execute a three-year deficit elimination plan to cancel out a record $3.5 million shortfall this year, the technology department needed to keep a […]
One commissioner suggested Tuesday that reducing the size of the 11-member board he sits on could save the County tens of thousands of dollars, and the time is right to do so.
92nd House Representative Marcia Hovey-Wright and Muskegon Heights Superintendent Dr. Dana Bryant gave reports to the city council and school board about changes coming from Lansing that may hit Muskegon Heights especially hard.
