Tips about planned school attacks rolled in after the Oxford High School shooting. But the OK2SAY confidential tip line also allowed officials help students in distress, including those who were suicidal.
Tracie Mauriello
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
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Michigan fast-tracks teaching as second career, but questions about rigor
Michigan now has 10 alternative certification programs, intended to help reduce a shortage of classroom teachers by finding candidates outside traditional college education programs. Critics worry they compromise teaching standards, shortchanging students.
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Michigan school mental health program set to expand with $50 million boost
About 700 Michigan schools have adopted the TRAILS program to help students manage their emotions, de-escalate conflict and make better decisions. The program received a huge funding increase in the latest budget deal.
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More money may not mean more disability services in Michigan schools
Whitmer signed a $19.6 billion budget that includes $1.9 billion for services for students with disabilities. It also funds mental health, school safety, and recruitment effort
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Gretchen Whitmer OKs financial literacy in Michigan high schools
The bill passed with bipartisan support and would allow students to satisfy a half-credit of math, world language or the arts.
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Michigan House passes bill to pay student teachers for classroom work
Currently, most college students studying to become teachers must work for free while student teaching, a burden that creates one more obstacle to pursuing a teaching career. The bill would pay them $90 a day, and also pay their classroom mentors.
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Facing teacher shortage, Michigan may ease path for out-of-state educators
About a third of teachers hired last year in Michigan were initially certified in other states. That could increase under a bill now being considered in Lansing.
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More Michigan third-graders could be held back under read-or-flunk law
Nearly 5,700 families have been notified that their children tested a year or more behind in reading, making them eligible to be held back a year. But few children actually repeat third grade due to generous loopholes in the law.
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Michigan’s teacher shortage: What’s causing it, how serious is it, and what can be done?
Administrators say it will take a strong workforce to address academic challenges that worsened during the pandemic.
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Michigan lawmakers pass K-12 budget plan that boosts spending, pays down debt
The GOP-controlled Legislature wants to increase funding as 15 percent. Details still need to be worked out between House, Senate plans.