A timeline released Friday also confirms that the Feb. 13 shooting that killed three students and injured five was over by the time MSU alerted students to the threat.
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MSU shooter motive hinted at in note: ‘They made me who I am today a killer’
Michigan State Police on Friday released a redacted version of the note suspected campus shooter Anthony McRae wrote a day earlier and carried with him during the crime.
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Many leadership positions at risk in Detroit schools as COVID-19 relief dries up
Detroit public schools received $1.3 billion in COVID aid. The loss of those funds, as well as a decline in enrollment since 2020, will hurt.
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Should Michigan schools teach cursive? Some say yes.
A Democrat-sponsored bill would encourage the Michigan Department of Education to develop or adopt cursive programs and “strongly encourage” schools to teach cursive.
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Michigan State shooting victims: Two more students released from hospital
Sparrow Hospital provided an update Friday on the status of students injured in the Feb. 13 mass shooting on the Michigan State University campus.
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Michigan preschool expansion hits a snag as some providers face funding cuts
A classroom at half capacity in Detroit would have lost $74,000 in funding this year. So the provider shut it down.
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Classroom locks, active intruder training promised after MSU shootings
Interim President Teresa Woodruff announced a series of future security upgrades on Wednesday that range from restricting public access to buildings to school-wide training sessions following a deadly mass shooting Feb. 13.
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Michigan State shooting: Alerts to students delayed as police rushed to campus
All on-duty officers rushed to the gunman, leaving no one initially to send an alert to students to ‘run, hide, fight.’ The text came 13 minutes after the first 9-1-1 call, as the gunman had moved to another building.
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MSU shooting: fourth victim identified, discharged from hospital
Troy Forbush of Okemos publicly identified himself as one of the five MSU students critically injured in a mass shooting on the East Lansing campus two weeks ago. He is the first of the five to be released from the hospital, according to his Facebook page.
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Michigan student loan forgiveness: What to know as Supreme Court steps in
The high court will hear oral arguments Tuesday on challenges to President Biden’s loan forgiveness program, which aims to cancel up to $20,000 in college debt for individual students. Critics say Biden went beyond his executive authority.