Michigan House, Senate cancel session with just days before legal deadline to pass state budget. ‘We were hopeful,’ said a spokesperson for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Michigan K-12 schools
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Michigan must focus literacy efforts on older students, too, experts say
Many raise concerns with Michigan’s reading scores. Elementary school kids are often the focus. But what about older students who still struggle to read?
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Opinion | Michigan’s school funding system is overdue for a smart update
Michigan is now on the precipice of a transformational moment in how we support students and schools. We urge legislators to build on that momentum by supporting a multiyear transition to weighted student funding as part of the state budget process.
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Opinion | Public dollars, public schools. Michigan must reject tax credit vouchers
This voucher program would redirect public resources away from the neighborhood schools that serve every child and toward private institutions that are not held to the same standards of accountability, transparency or commitment to serving all students.
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Opinion | Michigan K-12 needs an overhaul. Continuing this way is insane
Educators need to get real: Saying you’re in a good Michigan district is like saying you’re the smartest kid in remedial class. The future depends on acting quickly to reform a system that has allowed others to pass us by.
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Opinion | Parents should decide who has access to their children
Who is ultimately responsible for raising children? The answer is parents. Yet in the digital world, we have created a system that often sidelines them.
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Northern Michigan found a way to cut school absenteeism. Lansing may defund it
One reason Michigan is behind other states in test scores is because kids miss so much school. But a program hailed as a model is at risk of losing nearly half its funding.
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House Speaker Matt Hall threatens budget stall over impasse with Senate Dems
With less than three weeks until Michigan schools have to finalize their own spending plans, GOP legislative leaders downplayed the prospect of getting a state budget done in time.
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Michigan lawmakers advance bills to mandate literacy training for teachers
One bill calls for people seeking a teaching certificate in Michigan to take a preparation program that includes the ‘science of reading.’
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Opinion | Michigan’s legislators and governor need to pass a K-12 budget now
In an open letter to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Senate Democratic Leader Winnie Brinks and House Speaker Matt Hall, the executive directors of the Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators and the Michigan Association of School Boards call for the state to finalize the K-12 education budget without delay.