More and more schools in Michigan are starting before Labor Day, despite the law that technically makes it illegal for schools to do so. Schools can apply for waivers to the law in order to start class in August, and this year a record number of schools applied...
Bethann Egan from 'In The Image', our August Wee Difference Charity, joined The Jojo Show to talk about what they do for our community, and how you can help them achieve their goals.
Summer vacation and the three-day Labor Day weekend are over as students head back to school across Michigan today.
Use the hashtags #btswmi or #btswestmi on Twitter or Instagram with your back-to-school pictures from greater Grand Rapids and West Michigan. Let's show our pride pictorially about our students, children and kids.
Do you remember that family who did the "Xmas Jammies" video last year?
Kim and Penn Holderness are the parents and they're not quite ready for back to school, but they're happy to do a video and song about it, set to "Baby Got Back" from the early '90s.
Summer vacation and the three-day Labor Day weekend are over as students head back to school across Michigan on Tuesday.
Share your pride about your students headed back to school on their first day of the 2014-2015 school year. Use the hashtags #btswmi or #btswestmi on Twitter or Instagram, and see those photos online at WFGR.
We'll post those photos starting at 6 a.m. Tuesday.
The 'X-mas Jammies' family is back, and this time they're celebrating what every parent is looking forward to this time of summer: the beginning of the school year.
The mother of one of the 26 victims of 2012's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has written a powerful letter to the teachers of America.
Nebla Marquez-Greene had two children attending Sandy Hook Elementary that day. Her daughter, 6-year-old Ana Grace, was killed in the Connecticut massacre, and her son was uninjured in the attack.
Her letter, which was posted on the Education Week website
Today is National Back to School Day.
Well, that's half true,. Of course in Michigan school doesn't start until after Labor Day.
In other parts of the country, school has been in for a couple of weeks now. What???