The Mars Agency, and advertising firm in Southfield, MI, sent some employees to volunteer in our office today. They ask their employees to “give back” to the community one day a year. This group really did a fantastic job organizing and filing all of our years of student data in our new data room.
Beyond Basics is excited to announce that famed local florist Blossoms of Birmingham will be donating the floral table centerpieces for their Ladies Luncheon on June 7th at the Detroit Athletic Club.
Education leaders should take a lesson from the medical world. The overprescription of antibiotics has led to a growing resistance to the life-saving drug. Similarly, the constant stream of school reform plans has had this effect on learning.
A huge thank you to our volunteers from CHEP! We cannot thank these men and women enough. They assisted us in moving furniture and organizing our new office space, as well as donating paint for our lobby. Thank you so much to our CHEP volunteers! We appreciate you!
Push22 owner Mike Verville read about Beyond Basics in a recent Crain’s Detroit Business article. He was in the process of moving his office to another location and wanted to donate his office furniture to our organization. He reached out to us and we gratefully accepted.
After conducting a nationwide search, the Detroit Public Schools Community District on Saturday announced three finalists for superintendent: Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of Duval County (Florida) Public Schools Derrick R. Coleman, superintendent of the River Rouge district Orlando Ramos, regional superintendent for …
The battle against Detroit’s illiteracy crisis is fought one child at a time. Consider the story of Elijah Craft, a towering 6-foot, 6-inch 12th-grader at Central High School, where he plays football, basketball and baseball.
The State of Michigan is putting off making a decision on whether to close as many as 38 chronically failing schools, according to a news release from Gov. Rick Snyder’s office this afternoon.
Both interns and staff members from UHY Advisors‘ Michigan practice took a day off from busy season earlier this month and visited students from Burton International Academy in Detroit.
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