With COVID cases among children rising, health officials ordered schools in the western U.P. counties of Iron and Dickinson to mask up in elementary schools. Barry and Eaton counties in mid-Michigan did the same. Many parents aren’t happy.
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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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Detroit schools are spending $70M for COVID testing. Could a vaccine mandate be next?
The Detroit Public Schools Community District is spending $70 million for COVID testing for students and staff.
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Detroit students hustle into class, masked up and temperature checked
The Detroit Public Schools Community District had 50,000 students enrolled on the first day of school, but it may take home visits to get all of them in the classroom.
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Michigan: Masked or vaxxed students more likely to avoid COVID quarantine
Fewer K-12 students will likely have to stay home from school because of exposure to COVID under new recommendations from the state health department. But local schools and health departments will have the final say on safety rules this year.
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More Michigan 3rd-graders struggled to read amid COVID, remote learning
African-American and low-income third-graders were far more likely to be flagged for possible retention due to low reading test scores than their white or non-poor classmates. How many students are actually being held back remains unclear.
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Majority of Michigan students must now mask up, as Ingham, Washtenaw add rules
Eight of the nine most populous counties in the state now have orders requiring face masks in school buildings.
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See how your Michigan school fared in the 2021 M-STEP test
Use this database to compare scores in math and English for grades 3-8.
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Michigan student test scores slump, as COVID halts slow progress
Scores fall, in some cases alarmingly so. But educators caution against reading too much into results from a year in which students were in and out of classrooms.
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Michigan will release M-STEP results soon. Here’s what to expect
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.
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Six northern Michigan counties join Wayne with newest school mask mandates
The latest counties to mandate masks in schools are Wayne, Benzie, Leelanau, Emmet, Charlevoix, Otsego and Antrim.