Parents in the Detroit Public Schools Community District have until Jan. 31 to turn in COVID testing consent forms if they want their children to learn in person.
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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Michigan students forced online by COVID learned less than those in schools
A new analysis confirmed what had been feared: Online learning wasn’t as effective as in-person during the COVID-interrupted 2020-21 school year, and academic gaps between racial groups grew.
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Michigan superintendent: With schools closing, let’s address teacher shortages
Scholarships for aspiring teachers and loan forgiveness for current educators won’t stop Michigan schools from closing now, but it could lessen the state’s teacher shortage long-term, says the state’s top school official
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Michigan colleges battle omicron with mandates, caution amid a better year
Michigan campuses had massive COVID outbreaks in the first year of the pandemic, which have been largely sidestepped this year. Officials are trying to be proactive amid the latest surge, with some going remote in January.
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Fewer masks, more illness, mass confusion as Michigan schools face omicron
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.
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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.