Business Leaders: Greater Preschool Access Crucial To State Future
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. -- Inadequate preschooling is causing Michigan students to fall behind early, making it harder to develop the talented workforc...
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. -- Inadequate preschooling is causing Michigan students to fall behind early, making it harder to develop the talented workforc...
Posted 04.10.2012
Public schools are often criticized and scrutinized for perceived administrative bloat, tied to concerns that those sitting behind desks in district o...
Posted 06.01.2012
A Michigan teacher's aide is fighting a legal battle with the Lewis Cass Intermediate School District for removing her from her position after refusin...
Eddie N. Fakhoury | Posted 05.28.2012
A small boost for a district that finds itself caught in the middle means protecting it from falling to the high-need end of the scale where investment will be more costly and return on investment will take more time.
Posted 05.20.2012
In a nod to the power of community and social media, Lakeshore Public Schools in Stevensville, Mich. has rescinded disciplinary action against an Adva...
HuffingtonPost.com | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 03.16.2012
As challenges to Michigan's emergency manager law mount, Muskegon Heights school officials are practically begging Gov. Rick Snyder to put someone in ...
Dennis Van Roekel | Posted 04.23.2012
The only way to turn around struggling schools is to work together -- by demanding concrete changes that make low student achievement totally unacceptable for any group of students.
Annis Brown | Posted 04.09.2012
Our friendly rivalries aside, U of Michigan and MSU students alike are stepping up in meaningful ways to make an impact in the lives of students and the future of our state and country.
AP | Posted 12.10.2011
WARREN, Mich. -- Police say two Detroit-area youngsters used a toy gun to rob five of their schoolmates of candy and chips. The five victims were wal...
AP | LARRY LAGE | Posted 02.04.2012
Tiny Fennville, Mich., is getting ready to host a basketball game for the first time since Wes Leonard made a game-winning shot and collapsed seconds ...
Posted 11.29.2011
Michigan's state Senate dropped a bill Tuesday that critics called "a license to bully," and instead adopted a House version that represents a comprom...
Posted 01.12.2012
A bill that requires every Michigan public school student to start the day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance has been approved by the state Senate....
Posted 01.11.2012
Michigan's state House passed its own version of an anti-bullying Thursday, smoothing over the language in a bill passed by the Senate last week that ...
Canton, Mich. Patch | Peg McNichol | Posted 12.28.2011
Michigan might be getting more cyber schools. Under legislation narrowly approved 20-18 by the Republican-led state Senate, Michigan's current cap ...
Posted 12.07.2011
Michigan's state Senate narrowly passed a bill Thursday that allows the expansion of charter schools in the state. The bill now goes to the state H...
Posted 11.26.2011
A Minnesota mother has been banned from her child's school and bus stop for defending her son against bullies, WCCO-TV reports. After her 10-year-...
The Detroit News | Jennifer Chambers | Posted 11.22.2011
The new leader of a Michigan recovery system for failing schools defended his record in Kansas City on Wednesday, a day after the district he used to ...
AP | By ED WHITE | Posted 11.11.2011
DETROIT -- A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the work of one of its three-judge panels and said it would decide the legality of Michigan's ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.01.2011
When appointing John Covington chancellor of Michigan's Education Achievement System, a plan to transform low-performing schools that will pilot in De...
NPR | Larry Abramson | Posted 10.30.2011
If there were an award for the "most challenged" school district in the United States, the Detroit public school system would have good reason to clai...
Posted 10.15.2011
Detroit Public Schools aims to put 90 percent of its funding into student education, DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts told MSNBC Sunday. "We're go...
Posted 09.28.2011
(Reuters) - Detroit public school teachers will take a 10 percent wage cut and pay more for health care in what the school system's manager on Fri...
Detroit Free Press | CHASTITY PRATT DAWSEY AND KRISTI TANNER-WHITE | Posted 09.26.2011
One out of three public school educators report pressure from bosses, parents or others to change grades, and nearly 30% say pressure to cheat on stan...
Posted 09.19.2011
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a teacher tenure reform bill into law Tuesday, overhauling teacher performance evaluations by tying it to student ach...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.20.2011
A plan revealed Monday to overhaul Detroit's public schools left stakeholders with more questions than answers about the future of education in the M...
AP | Posted 05.30.2012