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.
Michigan K-12 schools
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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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Opinion | The State of Michigan legally undermined local governments
Many states have a history of placing financial burdens on local governments. Few have been so brazen, devious and destructive as has Michigan
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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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Opinion | To keep kids in the classroom, Michigan schools must mask up
We can have both protections against COVID-19 and the benefits of in-person learning if we are willing to take common sense measures in Michigan’s schools, including wearing face masks.
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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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Which Michigan school COVID measures work? We asked scientists
Schools tried a bit of everything to keep students safe last year. Some of those efforts are being pared back now as schools and health officials learn more about what appears to help reduce COVID, and what doesn’t.
