Research on Michigan’s Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) shows that kids who have a high-quality preschool experience show significant positive developmental differences as compared to children who do not attend a high-quality preschool program. They also have a greater likelihood of success in many areas throughout life, research shows.
Nearly a quarter of the material sent to landfills is wasted food. Amid a push to address the problem in Michigan, grocers and nonprofits are using technology to get soon-to-expire food off the shelves.
In a set of union-backed bills, Democrats would give teachers a stronger voice in the classes they teach, and would make evaluations subject to bargaining. Superintendents say the bills would put union seniority ahead of what’s best for students.
The Detroit chapter of SPJ honors included four first-place finishes for reporting on neo-Nazi extremists, culture wars at a west Michigan library, on-demand physicians and how schools spent COVID relief funds.
Call it ‘payback’ or politics as usual, but campaign records show that labor groups increased donations to Democrats this spring as they advanced a host of pro-union laws.
Almost every state in the nation is growing faster, causing economic hardship for Michigan residents and businesses. State leaders are looking to reverse the trend. If we can’t be Florida, can we at least be Indiana?
A respected U.S. task force contends mammograms should begin at age 40, not 50, citing more precise research. But the decision, which isn't final, is more complicated than it sounds.
