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Kevin Lavery

Kevin Lavery has been news director at WKAR since September 2006.

Just prior to coming to WKAR as news director, Lavery was a reporter at KWMU in St. Louis, Missouri, covering local politics, government, and biotechnology issues.

Lavery's journalism career began in the Navy. He studied journalism at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana; worked as news director and television producer for American Forces Network-Japan; and served in Antarctica as radio program director at the McMurdo Station Research Facility on Ross Island.

  • Michigan Restaurants And Bars Train Employees To De-Escalate Mask-Related Conflicts
    Kevin Lavery
    As governments make masks mandatory in public places, a restaurant industry group started teaching employees ways to de-escalate situations involving people refusing to wear them.
  • Eastern Flex Academy is an experimental program in Lansing, Mich.
    National
    High School Starts At 3 p.m. For These Michigan Students
    Kevin Lavery
    A small group of students attends Eastern Flex Academy in Lansing, Mich., which is designed to accommodate part-time job schedules, internships and even family responsibilities.
  • National
    At Michigan High School The Day Starts At 3 p.m. And Ends At 8 p.m.
    Kevin Lavery
    As most students at the school are leaving, a second wave trickles in. They're part of a public school experiment: evening classes. The flex students are on the same track as their daytime peers.
  • Teaching Empathy To School Bus Drivers
    Kevin Lavery
    In Michigan, an unusually hands-on training program helps some school bus drivers be more attuned to the struggles of students with physical or emotional challenges by trying to be in their shoes.