A growing percentage of Michigan students have the option of learning in classrooms at least part of the week, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations decline and vaccinations rise.
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Michigan students to take standardized tests, but which one is unclear
The U.S. is requiring standardized tests this year amid COVID. Ordinarily, that would mean the statewide M-STEP, but state Superintendent Michael Rice wants districts to choose among assessments, leaving the issue in limbo.
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Michigan students must take M-STEP, despite COVID, Biden administration says
Michigan school officials didn’t want to make students take standardized tests this spring because of the disruptions due to the pandemic. Federal officials aren’t giving them a choice.
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Affluent Michigan schools want bigger share of federal COVID funds
With billions at stake, Michigan school groups are pushing to have the COVID relief formula changed to shrink the funding advantage being given to poor districts under federal relief bills. Some impoverished districts would get 100 times more funds under the U.S. formula.
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Editor's note: A flawed report on COVID safety in Michigan schools
Bridge Michigan misapplied Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on school safety. As a result, an article published Tuesday vastly overstated the number of Michigan counties the CDC considered safe for in-person classroom learning.
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Tensions mount as 3 Michigan school districts hesitate to open classrooms
Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo and Lansing have yet to decide whether to reopen to in-person classes, despite declining COVID-19 cases and the urging of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that schools find ways to safely reopen.
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Opinion | Michigan must boost funding for students with special learning needs
There is no priority as significant as meeting the educational needs of every student, regardless of disability.
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Opinion | School leaders to Whitmer: invest in early childhood education now
School leaders from across the state are sending a message to the governor and the Legislature: to improve education, increase funding for the Great Start Readiness Program.
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Michigan teachers got COVID vaccines early, students now stand to benefit
Nearly two-thirds of Michigan teachers have received at least the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine or are set to get it, according to a survey by the state’s largest teachers union, spurring more districts to make plans to reopen.
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Opinion | School board members caught in middle of return-to-school debate
Put yourself in the shoes of volunteer school board members, who are trying to figure out when to bring students back to classrooms while getting criticized from all sides.
