Here are all 2014 Academic State Champs districts, recognized for scores in the top 5 percent of their category. Some districts won for overall excellence; some for the performance of its schools at the elementary, middle or high school level
Talent & Education
To prosper, Michigan must be a more educated place. Bridge will explore the challenges in education and identify policies and initiatives that address them.
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Compare Michigan's school districts
See where YOUR school ranks: 2014 rankings and Top 10 lists of school districts across the state. Come back next Tuesday for Bridge’s first-ever rankings of individual schools.
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Michigan's overachieving school districts are State Champs
Bridge proudly recognizes the most overachieving districts in the state in 2014. Next Tuesday: Bridge releases its first-ever state rankings for individual schools.
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A Great Start to preschool expansion
21,000 more four-year-olds are benefitting from free, high-quality preschool in in just two years thanks to extra state funding
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How one Michigan community is benefiting from preschool expansion
Tripling preschool slots, and still a waiting list in Vicksburg
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Why Detroit’s new school leadership won’t much matter
Detroit will improve its chronically low-performing schools when the system focuses more on proven, consistent academic reforms and less on changes to its power structure.
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Love him or hate him, here’s how one school superintendent calls snow days
Everybody else gets to sleep in, but the person who decides whether to cancel school has to be up at 4 a.m., having a conference call. It’s a chilling duty, and thankless.
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Michigan’s future teachers flunking test of ‘basic’ content
Fewer than 1-in-3 aspiring teachers are passing a new certification exam that tests math, reading and writing skills. Proponents of the test say its raises the bar for the profession; but teaching colleges call the test confusing.
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Destroying Michigan’s career tech system to save it
Michigan's K-12 vocational education system will never become the powerful job engine that Gov. Snyder demands without a fix to inequitable funding across the state.
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Kicking butt and taking jobs
How one student from Paw Paw found success in the IT marketplace