Ypsilanti is like a lot of Michigan school districts: lots of struggling young readers and not nearly enough tutors to help them catch up. Federal pandemic funds are available, but staffing levels remain a hindrance.
Downstate Michiganders looking for a piece of paradise are pricing out year-round residents in Up North tourist towns like Charlevoix and Boyne City, making it difficult for businesses and school districts to attract employees.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation partnered with Battle Creek Public Schools to cover up to 100 percent of tuition and fees for graduating seniors. The class of 2023 will be the first student cohort awarded this scholarship.
In a set of union-backed bills, Democrats would give teachers a stronger voice in the classes they teach, and would make evaluations subject to bargaining. Superintendents say the bills would put union seniority ahead of what’s best for students.
Grand Rapids Public Schools is adding a backpack ban after confiscating a gun from a student. The superintendent says it’s a ‘drastic’ but necessary step.
The report found current security levels at the school are appropriate and surpass those at most schools. But it also recommended some additional steps, including more consistent questions about access to weapons for students undergoing threat assessments.
Guarantees of free COVID tests end with the last day of the national public health emergency, and there will be less data to pore through. But other impacts from a deadly pandemic will remain.
Michigan has among the nation’s worst resource gaps between wealthy and low-income school districts. The Legislature is proposing historic investments. Here’s how lawmakers can do even better.
Michigan teachers will no longer be evaluated based on student test scores under legislation being prepared by Democratic leaders. Critics say the current system should be tweaked, not scrapped.
The districts are looking to pass bond proposals that would aim to improve school safety and building renovations. See if your district is on the list.
Administrators stepped in just days before the school musical was to open to rein in all those dancing, pistol-waving cowboys. The district cites an ‘ongoing epidemic of gun violence.’ But a school board member fears the district will become a ‘laughingstock.’
Bridge Michigan reporter Isabel Lohman moderated a discussion with education experts about post-secondary educational opportunities for students that prepare them for thriving careers in our state.
There’s a cost to universal free school meals. But there’s a greater cost — to children and to the state — when students go through the school day hungry. A universal meal program raises student achievement and improves discipline.
Dexter is one of a number of districts joining a federal suit against the developers of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok, YouTube and others, contending their ‘addictive’ algorithms target vulnerable children and teens.
Join Bridge Michigan for our latest Bridge Lunch Break event, focused on how trade schools, colleges and universities are preparing students for employment and educating students in subject areas that allow them to have thriving careers in our state.
Across the country, some states are banning transgender athletes from participating in sport teams that are consistent with their gender identity. Some states face court battles and a new Biden proposal could add further questions in the ongoing debate over transgender athletes.