Many Michigan students are feeling the effects of the tight labor market as schools struggle to fill a wide range of positions, from teachers to nurses to social workers.
Koby Levin, Chalkbeat
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
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Black teacher workforce declined sharply as Michigan students left city districts — study
Michigan’s Black teacher workforce declined 48 percent between 2005 and 2015, far outpacing overall declines in the size of the state’s educator corps, according to a new study from Michigan State University.
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Michigan cyber schools didn’t track student participation — audit
A new state audit on Michigan’s cyber charter schools raises questions about whether students are participating in the classes in which they’re enrolled, and whether they’re receiving the required hours of instruction.
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Michigan student test scores slump, as COVID halts slow progress
Scores fall, in some cases alarmingly so. But educators caution against reading too much into results from a year in which students were in and out of classrooms.
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What’s next for abandoned schools in Detroit? Neighbors say almost anything is better than vacancy.
Detroiters have long told city and school officials that almost anything would be better than leaving unused school buildings vacant.
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Leftover child care money gives a boost to cash-strapped Michigan providers
The $105 million payout comes from federal funds that weren’t spent because of COVID.
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Michigan education programs are training teachers, but hundreds aren’t passing the licensing exam
Hundreds of prospective teachers attended training programs in Michigan but failed the licensing exam to become a teacher.
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Full-time virtual schools expand in Michigan in wake of COVID
Some Michigan school districts are opening full-time, online schools as an alternative to traditional classrooms, on the belief that not all families will want to return to school buildings this year.
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Michigan child care providers left in lurch as lawmakers go on vacation
Lawmakers went on summer break before allocating $1.4 billion in federal COVID aid for child care. That’s left some worrying about making payroll.
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Learning from home without a place to study? These Detroit students built 62 solutions.
With classrooms shuttered across Detroit earlier this school year, leaders at Detroit Leadership Academy, a Brightmoor-area charter school, told neighborhood leaders that many students didn’t have a space where they could focus.