If Michigan’s experience is similar to other states, brace yourself for lower standardized test scores and bigger gaps between racial and income groups, caused by the pandemic.
Tracie Mauriello
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
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How Michigan schools are spending $6 billion in federal COVID relief
Michigan schools are investing heavily in summer school to accelerate learning. They are hiring reading, math and behavioral specialists (and a few drones) as students transition back to classrooms.
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Michigan GOP school board members lose vote to discourage masks in class
The board, by a 6-2 vote, rejected a non-binding resolution by Republican members to prevent schools from requiring masks, COVID tests or quarantining unvaccinated students. One GOP member was in tears.
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School administrators worry as Michigan returns to stricter pupil accounting rules
Michigan schools want the option of offering hybrid in-person and online learning for students who want it, but accounting rules may not allow it.
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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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Whitmer vetoes plan to give $1,000 scholarships for elementary reading help
Michigan families would have had access to $1,000 scholarships for outside-of-school tutoring to help elementary reading skills. School leaders questioned whether the scholarships would help students most in need, or those with the resources to find tutors.
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Michigan juniors take a career readiness test. Most employers ignore it
Taxpayers spend $4.4 million for a standardized test that is supposed to help employers know who is qualified for jobs. One problem: Few employers use it.
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Michigan lawmakers pass ‘historic’ $17B plan for schools to close funding gap
Schools will receive base funding of $8,700 per student across the state, a goal lawmakers have worked toward since 1994.