April 17, 2025

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Saline Area Schools has its new Director of Safety and Security

The new Director of Safety and Security for Saline has a range of knowledge and previous work in jobs that should help him in his new role with the school district. This role is new for Saline. Bringing with him such past experiences as overseeing the multi-jurisdictional SWAT and Negotiations Team for Washtenaw County, implementing ...

PowerSchool Data Breach did not impact Saline

Saline Area Schools said it was not impacted by the massive PowerSchool data breach that may have exposed student and staff data at different school districts around the country. In his Jan. 10 community message, Saline Superintendent Stephen Laatsch addressed this issue to update the district: “A recent cybersecurity incident impacted PowerSchool, a company that ...

Saline’s Unified Basketball Players will face Dexter before Pistons Game

Saline’s Unified Basketball teams have an awesome opportunity coming up that the community can help support them through. In a Facebook post, Saline High School said, “The Saline Unified Sports team has been working hard to make unified sports a reality in our district. Along with games scheduled against Dexter and Milan during the season ...

Survey: Saline Area Schools is partnering with the Washtenaw Intermediate School District

The WISD wants to know what Saline students, parents, staff members and community members think of applied and experiential learning in their schools. In his Dec. 20 Community Message,  Saline Area Schools Stephen Laatsch said “Saline Area Schools is partnering with the Washtenaw Intermediate School District (WISD) to enhance the education experiences of students through ...

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New Courses are coming to Saline High School, including Learning Drones and Designing Video Games

Some tried-and-true topics to a bit more modern areas of study, Saline Area Schools (SAS) will be introducing a handful of new courses at the high school next fall. The Board of Education approved these new courses for the Saline High School Course Catalog for 2025-26.  These were recommended and submitted by SAS Executive Director ...

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Saline Area Schools are Planning to Review its Athletic Department

In the wake of a varsity football season that saw the school district forfeiting three games because of a penalty for use of an ineligible player, Saline Area Schools (SAS) are looking into reviewing the entire athletic department. The Sun Times News (STN) followed up with SAS Board of Education President Michael McVey by email to ...

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Saline High Schoolers Make Semi-finals for 2025 National Merit Scholarship

Six students from Saline High School have the chance to compete for 6,870 merit-based scholarships next spring. The scholarships total to $26 million. William Hong, Weiran (Alice) Jiang, Daniel Lemmerhirt, Leah Mueller, Adrian Sieh, Caleb Summers and the students’ families were recognized at the Oct 22 Board of Education Meeting by the Saline schools.

Saline High School Students Honored as Semifinalists for the National Merit Scholarship

Six students from Saline High School have been chosen as Semifinalists for the 2025 National Merit Scholarship. They are: These students were recognized at a recent Saline Area Schools Board of Education meeting. This fall the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of more than 16,000 Semifinalists in the 70th annual National Merit ...