Apprentices

SOUTH BEND — When South Bend’s school board approved a move to take back the district’s welding technology program from The Apprentice Academy, citing a desire to augment it academically, Director Andrea Popielski said the impact on...

Here is our weekly salute to the people, places and organizations that make Northern Michigan a special place to live. Read me a story Sheridan and Central elementary school students pitched in to put books into the hands of children across Emmet,...

Petoskey Middle School students have learned what it takes to work on a backstage theater crew thanks to a volunteer initiative known as the Middle School Theatre Apprentice Program. The program is in its sixth year and runs through a partnership...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- For six Missouri Southern State University students, a typical day begins at 8 a.m. sharp, some 200 miles away from the campus in Joplin. They are part of Southern's Capitol Intern Program, which places each student in a lawmaker'...

SOUTH BEND -- In simplest terms, it was a request to the board to bring a welding tech program back to South Bend schools after years of contracting with several different organizations to serve the students in it, which now number two dozen. But on a...

Re "New rules for interns in schools," March 8 The problem with putting teaching interns from programs like Teach for America into classrooms with English-language learners isn't the interns' lack of competence teaching such students; it's their lack of...

Michael Russell, 38, was serving a prison sentence for selling crack-cocaine when he got a break in 2010: He started working at the CTA through a work-release program. Russell, who lives in Auburn Gresham after being released from prison last year,...

  THE VITALS Last season | 2-8. Last playoff bid | N/A THE SCHEDULE Sept. 3 | at Salisbury | 1 p.m. Sept. 10 | at Campbell | 1 Sept. 17 | Greensboro | 1 Sept. 24 | Gallaudet | 1 Oct. 1 | at Bridgewater | 1 Oct. 15 | Catholic| 1 Oct. 22 |...

SALISBURY, MD. – -- Ross Flanigan rushed for 104 yards and three touchdowns while quarterback Dan Griffin threw for 109 and two touchdowns as Salisbury University defeated Apprentice School 42-3 in front of 1,620 at Sea Gull Stadium in the season opener...

1. Please describe your educational and professional background and how it has prepared you to serve on the City Council. My Class was the first graduating class of the new Morgan State "University", were I majored in Secondary Education. After...

1. Please describe your educational and professional background and how it has prepared you to serve on the City Council. I am a native of Baltimore City's 8th District and a graduate of the Baltimore City Public School System. For 20 years, I...

Republican Mayor Dave Wood and his Democratic challenger, Craig Fry, both profess a deep love for their Mishawaka hometown. But, seat them next to each other in front of about 160 voters and supporters, and the two mayoral candidates start to show...