As another school year comes to an end, Mayor Dan Horrigan is proud to announce that the City of Akron Recreation Bureau, in partnership with Akron Public Schools Child Nutrition Services, will once again be participating in the federally-funded Summer Food Service Program this year.

State Senator Vernon Sykes invites you to his annual summer fishing clinic Wednesday, July 31, from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Thank you to all those who generously give to APS. Your help secures a brighter future for all students!

preventive intervention that gives teachers skills and strategies to create nurturing environments by teaching self-regulation, co-regulation and group regulation throughout their daily instruction.

Jessica Tozzi, who teaches second grade at I PROMISE School, has been invited by Microsoft to participate in its live streaming Hack the Classroom June 25 in Philadelphia.

Summit County residents in need of help can now receive information and referrals from United Way of Summit County’s (UWSC) 2-1-1 service via text.

The Akron Zoo will open its new animal area, The Landon & Cynthia Knight Pride of Africa, June 29. The exhibit will feature a new habitat for African lions and white storks and introduce new species Speke's gazelle and crested guineafowl.

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Registration is near capacity for Project GRAD Akron’s Bridge to Kindergarten Program for students entering kindergarten in Akron Public Schools in fall 2019, but applications are still being accepted through June 28.

At the I PROMISE School, not only are we family, we are a community.

Click on the link below for the 2018-19 second semester news from the College & Careeer Academies of Akron.

If you plant a seed, under the right circumstances, it will grow.

It takes teamwork to address the current state of violence in the community.

Saturday, June 15, 2019, the Autism Society of Greater Akron held the ninth Annual Step Into Autism Event (formerly the Autism 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Walk).

When the elementary students walked off the bus and into the I Promise School this last year, their teachers were outside ready to greet them with loud music, high-fives and hugs.

Anyone can father a child, but being a dad takes a lifetime. Fathers play a role in every child’s life that cannot be filled by others.

Akron Public Schools’ National Inventors Hall of Fame Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (NIHF-STEM) High School had 12 students in the Class of 2019 graduate as valedictorians with a summa cum laude designation.

The latest downtown Akron public art project is the work of a Spanish arts collective called Boa Mistura, which means “good mixture” in Portuguese.

The last mission for fourth-grade reading students in Mission Control (Miller South’s Gifted & Talented program) is a digital film competition.

One of the biggest challenges facing today’s workforce is the technical skills gap, partly created by a lack of accessible education opportunities for young professionals.

The graduation ceremony for Buchtel Community Learning Center’s (CLC) 125 seniors in the Class of 2019 was held May 29 at The Word Church.

For the second year, Kent State University is hosting a special summer camp designed to help students in the LeBron James "I PROMISE" program realize their collegiate dreams.