Michigan public school students can get free school breakfast and lunch at their schools during the 2023-2024 school year. Some lawmakers want to make the program permanent.
Isabel Lohman
Isabel reports on early childhood, K-12 and higher education for Bridge Michigan. She loves visiting schools and analyzing how policies made in Lansing affect students and educators. Previously, she was the children’s issues reporter for the Knoxville News Sentinel in Tennessee. There, she reported on the state's third-largest public school district's COVID-19 response and how a community copes after losing teenagers to gun violence. Isabel grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and has also lived in Missouri, Tennessee and Belgium. Isabel moved to Ann Arbor in January 2022 where she experienced her first Michigan winter. She has a warm winter hat with a snap-on puff ball. You can reach Isabel at ilohman@bridgemi.com.
Posted inTalent & Education
Michigan lawmakers consider requiring panic alarms in schools
Would a panic alarm help a school respond quicker to an active shooter? It’s unclear, but a Democrat-sponsored bill would require them.
Posted inTalent & Education
3.0 GPA now guarantees admission to 10 Michigan public universities
Michigan public universities hope guaranteed admission with a 3.0 high school grade point average will encourage more students to consider attending college after high school.
Posted inTalent & Education
Excited but worried, Michigan teachers wrestle with artificial intelligence
Ever since ChatGPT launched in November, schools have fretted about whether generative AI would lead to cheating and intellectual shortcuts. It may. But educators are coming around to its benefits as a classroom tool.
Posted inTalent & Education
Longtime superintendent at Ann Arbor Schools agrees to leave next month
Jeanice Kerr Swift reached a deal with the board to leave Oct. 31 after a decade leading the district. The agreement followed months of tension with some board members and parents, including over special education
Posted inTalent & Education
To help Michigan teacher shortage, lawmakers may ease retirement rules
Democrats and Republicans largely agree: there’s a teacher shortage. A bipartisan bill is aimed to help address the problem in the short term.
Posted inTalent & Education
Michigan State: We will say no more on who knew what in Mel Tucker probe
MSU has yet to offer detailed answers on what officials knew, and who made key decisions on how to handle a sexual harassment complaint against its head football coach. MSU said it will say no more for now.
Posted inTalent & Education
Mel Tucker calls MSU sexual harassment probe a ‘sham’ excuse to fire him
Tucker, suspended as MSU football coach Sunday after bombshell allegations from a sexual misconduct prevention advocate, called the charges false and suggested MSU wants him out for ulterior motives.
Posted inTalent & Education
Nassar survivors: MSU failed again with Mel Tucker sexual harassment probe
Michigan State University suspends football coach Mel Tucker without pay months after learning of sexual harassment allegations. Many question why he was allowed to coach two games; administrators say the process had to play out.
Posted inTalent & Education
Michigan State University bans concealed weapons after campus shooting
Board of Trustees expands gun ban to include campus visitors. Students and staff were already barred from having guns.
