I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
More than half of Michigan’s high schools have a less than ten percent rate of college-readiness among seniors according to an analysis by the state Department of Education.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the MDE used ACT standards to measure abilities in English, math, reading and science and found that even schools with high graduation rates rank low for college readiness.
Darrell Dawsey at MLive looked at the numbers for Detroit schools.
In Detroit, the numbers were downright abysmal. Only Renaissance High, the district’s top high school, broke even that 10 percent threshold. Of course, Renaissance’s graduation rate in 2010 was an impressive 95.5 percent. At Cass Tech, which also graduated 95.5 percent of its students last year, only 4.4 percent of this year’s expected grads are prepared for the next level academically.
Meanwhile, at every other Detroit public high school, the portion of students deemed college ready was less than 1 percent.
The local charter schools that have been hailed as a way to fix Detroit’s educational problems did not fair better.
At Winans Academy High School, for instance, the 2010 graduation rate was 88 percent. The percent of student deemed college-prepared? Zero. Same for Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences, which boasted a 92 percent graduation rate last year.
Statewide only 40 high schools had more than 30 percent college-readiness among seniors.
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