The Trump administration’s warning that Tylenol taken by expectant moms may increase the risk of autism has raised questions in Michigan doctor offices.
Ron French
Ron reports on a variety of subjects across the state. Ron came to Bridge in 2011 from The Detroit News, where he was a project reporter. Born and raised in Indiana, Ron graduated from Purdue University. He reported for newspapers across Indiana before moving to Michigan in 1995. Ron lives in Okemos, and like the true Michigander he’s become, he now has a family cabin Up North. You can reach him at rfrench@bridgemi.com or 517-214-3636.
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MSU study urges more money, improved efficiencies for Michigan schools
While Michigan school funding has gone up, the dollars making it to classrooms has remained flat because of growing pension costs.
Posted inOutdoors Life
50 years after Edmund Fitzgerald, Michigan author explores its mystery, legend
Author John U. Bacon’s forthcoming book about the Great Lakes’ most famous shipwreck concludes that many factors ‘came together at exactly the wrong place and the wrong time’ to doom the freighter.
Posted inMichigan Health Watch
Michigan farmer suicide help may be endangered by state funding snub
Michigan farmers commit suicide at more than twice the rate of other occupations. Dueling budgets in the Legislature include no funding for intervention or help.
Posted inTalent & Education
Michigan schools are floundering. How some buck the trend, improve literacy
Michigan reading scores are at record lows. Some districts are boosting literacy by investing in training, curriculum and data. Can their success be applied statewide?
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Money woes imperil Traverse City’s bid to boost reading scores with free books
Northwest Michigan is betting that providing preschoolers with books can boost plummeting reading scores. Early signs are encouraging, but funding uncertainties linger.
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Report: Give governor more control to improve Michigan schools, test scores
The state paid $500,000 for a report on how to improve Michigan schools. Not all are thrilled with the recommendations.
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Here’s how governor candidates say they’d fix Michigan education
Tougher graduation requirements, more teacher training on literacy and more school choice are among the ideas candidates are pitching to improve Michigan K-12 education.
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Michigan schools on hiring spree. Can it reverse ‘Titanic’ learning losses?
Michigan has 21,000 more teacher aides than a decade ago helping a shrinking population of schoolkids. Hiring more adults has yet to reverse learning skids, but one lawmaker likens it to turning around the Titanic.
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Fact check: What’s true, false, misleading about Michigan’s education slide
From poverty and special interests to the lockdown and school choice, theories abound about Michigan’s declining test scores. Other states have the same issues but are doing better.