Working with other educators and administrators, as well as Academic Assistant Principal Marla Robinson at Union High School, 6636 S. Mingo, Union educators have devised several strategies for helping students improve their literacy skills as they move from the 8th Grade Center to Union Intermediate High School and eventually the High School. ... more
Grove Elementary School, 10202 E. 62nd St., is helping young mothers graduate from Union High School, 6636 S. Mingo, by providing a room for their babies. Similar baby rooms are operating at Cedar Ridge and Rosa Parks elementary schools as well. Union is also planning to develop a more comprehesnive Early Head Start Childhood program. ... more
Ross Ford was elected to the Board of Education for a five-year term, representing Zone 2, during a run-off election against Guy Fortney on April 3. Ford received 53 percent of the vote. Both candidates generated a lot of patron interest in the election resulting in a voter turnout of more than 800 patrons. ... more
Remodeling has begun begin for a new Union Alternative School complex at 5656 S. 129 th E. Ave. that would be home to both middle school and high school level programs. ... more