Office of the Superintendent

Archives of Dr. Rice's monthly column as published in Excelsior, the district newspaper, are linked below. The current month's column appears in the news section of the Office of the Superintendent:

This appeared in the June 2010 Excelsior.

Speech delivered at 2010 K-Central Commencement. This also appeared in the August 2010 Excelsior.

This appeared in the September 2010 Excelsior.

This appeared in the October 2010 Excelsior.

This appeared in the November 2010 Excelsior.

This appeared in the January 2011 Excelsior.

This appeared in the February 2011 Excelsior.

This appeared in the March 2011 Excelsior.

Board President Carol McGlinn and Superintendent Dr. Rice wrote this letter to all state senators and to locally elected representatives to underscore concerns about the governor's budget and the enormous cuts that would result from the budget for children in grades pre-K-12 if the state legislature were to approve the budget as introduced. This letter also appeared in the April 2011 Excelsior.

On April 13, 2011, Superintendent Dr. Rice testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee: K-12, School Aid, Education. Here are excerpts from that testimony as they appeared in the May 2011 Excelsior. The full-length testimony is also available online.

This column appeared in the June 2011 Excelsior and in the Sunday, May 8, 2011, Kalamazoo Gazette.

This appeared in the August 2011 Excelsior.

This appeared in the September 2011 Excelsior.

This appeared in the October 2011 Excelsior.