School mask mandates are declining across Michigan even as COVID cases rise to crazy levels. And with a surge in teachers and other staffers out sick, the state is taking a harder line on quarantines.
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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School violence is rising. Michigan’s OK2SAY tipline can help
State police believe OK2SAY has stopped suicides, assaults, vandalism, and worse.
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Michigan teacher: Kids are heroes but something is going to break
With students in and out of classrooms because of COVID or just plain stress, one teacher describes the struggle of kids learning “how to do school again” in an unsustainable year.
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Michigan State University, U-M will require COVID booster shots
Trying to head off infections from the new omicron variant, the University of Michigan and MSU are mandating employees and students who were vaccinated more than six months ago to get booster shots as soon as possible.
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Michigan lawmakers vote to allow bus drivers, lunch aides to serve as substitutes
It’s unclear if Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will sign the bill waiving some requirements for substitutes this year to ease a nationwide shortage.
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10 years of strict teacher evaluations haven’t boosted learning in Michigan
It seemed like a common-sense accountability law. A decade later, though, almost all teachers are rated effective and students’ test scores have declined.
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Short of teachers, Michigan schools may use bus drivers as subs under GOP bill
A bill allowing current school support staff to work as substitute teachers, even if they’ve never been to college, is meant to address a teacher shortage hobbling Michigan schools.
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In 1978, a teen opened fire at Lansing Everett. It has lessons for Oxford.
1978 was an era of school fire drills, not active-shooter training. Former students and a teacher recall how unprepared Everett High School was when a 15-year-old shot and killed one classmate and injured another.
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Oxford school shooting: Sandy Hook mom urges mental health focus
Trying to change gun laws hasn’t worked, says a mother whose son died in a school shooting. Instead, she encourages compassion and relationships.
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Already short of teachers, some Michigan schools now running low on food
Students are finding fewer selections in school cafeterias this year because of supply chain issues.