Michigan public and private schools can opt in to receive school safety and mental health funding. But school groups say they have issues with the funding rules.
2021 Oxford school shooting
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United in tragedy, Oxford and Rochester Hills offer lessons to Grand Blanc
The Genesee County suburb joins a sad list of Michigan communities that have to recover from mass shootings. ‘The aftermath gets harder,’ Oxford’s police chief says.
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Michigan court ends effort to sue Oxford school staff over 2021 mass shooting
The Michigan Supreme Court had dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021. The order ends efforts to hold employees partly responsible for the mass shooting.
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Third time’s the charm for Oxford-inspired school safety bills?
More than three years after a shooting at Oxford High School, lawmakers are still debating school safety policy. Will it pass this time?
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Whitmer’s $84B plan for Michigan schools, housing and more: What to know
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is proposing more spending on schools, housing and more. But her $84B budget does not include a long-term road funding plan, which she’s still working on.
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Michigan school safety plan inches forward three years after Oxford shootings
The bill package would create more clear protocols for responding to emergencies and add student mental health support.
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Oxford parents renew call for state probe of mass school shooting
With the third anniversary of the school shooting approaching, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she still hasn’t received the cooperation from local officials necessary to begin an outside inquiry.
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Whitmer for president? ‘True Gretch’ reads like the book of a future candidate
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s memoir is scheduled for release in early July.
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Whitmer creates task force to reduce gun violence in Michigan
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order Thursday establishing a Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. The announcement comes days after a man opened fire on a splash pad in Rochester Hills.
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Michigan gun plan would make schools share safe storage law with parents
Parents of Oxford school shooting victims are backing a proposal that would require Michigan schools to tell families about the state’s new safe storage law and how to keep guns away from kids.