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Posted inTalent & Education
Ball Q&A: Michigan kids ‘will lose’ with weak teacher evaluation bill
UM education dean Deborah Loewenberg Ball slams the Legislature’s latest bill to rate teachers. She urges the state to instead adopt her panel’s recommendations, which she said would be the nation’s gold standard for raising classroom performance.
Posted inTalent & Education
Love him or hate him, here’s how one school superintendent calls snow days
Everybody else gets to sleep in, but the person who decides whether to cancel school has to be up at 4 a.m., having a conference call. It’s a chilling duty, and thankless.
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National education leader: Business must lead fight in Michigan
Bridge sat down with Kati Haycock, founder of the Education Trust in Washington, D.C., to talk about reversing Michigan’s decline and what schools can do for low-income kids when parents aren’t in the game.
Posted inMichigan Government
Q&A: Home is what you make it
There are many cities that can be improved with planning that turns public spaces into the heart of those communities. Michigan’s “placemaking” chief explains how.
Posted inBusiness Watch
More money. More jobs?
Southeast Michigan is poised to get a share of $1.3 billion in U.S. economic development grants. Lisa Baragar Katz, executive director of the Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeastern Michigan tells Bridge how the money should be spent.
Posted inMichigan Government
Politicos were out to get me, says emergency manager
Benton Harbor’s first emergency manager sidelined elected officials and a public war soon followed. EMs have authority to make the hard cuts that elected leaders won’t, but entrenched politics are harder to ax.
Posted inUrban Affairs
Dennis Archer: Supporting Detroit benefits entire state
Detroit’s former mayor argues that the city’s negative image brings down all of Michigan – even hundreds of miles away.
Posted inUrban Affairs
Shinola’s place in Detroit’s future
Jacques Panis, president of the Detroit watch and bicycle maker, offers a wish list of businesses he’d like to see in Detroit.
Posted inTalent & Education
Bill sponsor says year-round schools will prove popular
The devil is always in the details, but year-round bill sponsor Andy Schor, D-Lansing, says the pilot program spearheaded by him and Gov. Rick Snyder will ultimately win support from parents, students, and teachers.