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.
Senate Republicans have introduced legislation that would eliminate the cap on the number of charter schools in Michigan.
As Detroit moves to turn more of its public schools into charter schools, a new study indicates that students at most of the city’s charter schools have lower scores than those in the public system.
Detroit Public Schools’ new Emergency Manager, Roy Roberts, announced yesterday that he will scale back a plan to turn a third of the city’s schools into charter schools by next year.
In a presention on his priorities for educational reform today Gov. Rick Snyder called for expanded use of privately-operated charter schools and he said that 23 school districts face possible takeover by Emergency Managers.
Michigan’s teachers are warning the public that the deep cuts to elementary and secondary education spending proposed by Gov. Snyder, combined with the newly signed Emergency Manager bill, pose a grave threat to the state’s education system.
Next week the Detroit Public School system will begin accepting bids from charter school operators interested in taking over operations at 45 city schools.
Robert Bobb, the state-appointed emergency financial manager for the Detroit Public Schools, is proposing that most of the schools being closed down in that city be converted into charter schools.
For some neighborhoods in Detroit, public education’s history Out in my backyard in Detroit, where pear trees hang heavy with growing fruit and the buzz of honey bees fills the warm air, I stand over a wheelbarrow full of mulch, chatting with my neighbor about the plight of Detroit Public Schools. A mother of four, [...]
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