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.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Thursday announced the finalization of an application process for schools to seek more cash from the feds, but those monies are tied to certain expectations — like student performance being tied to teacher and administration reviews, which could put Michigan on the sideline.
Immediately following the announcement last Friday of a new multi-million dollar teacher training grant from the Kellogg Foundation, Gov. Jennifer Granholm fielded questions from a horde of journalists at the Detroit Science Center. And the main topic wasn’t Michigan’s shiny new teacher fellowship.
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — The room where the Haslett Board of Education meets has 116 seats, the majority of which sit empty during most of their bimonthly meetings. But Monday night was no ordinary school board meeting — it was the first meeting after revelations of drunk shaming, drug use and alleged sexual assault by a group of teachers divided this upscale mid-Michigan community near East Lansing.
Times are tough for Michigan students — in the interim budget passed last month state lawmakers reneged on the Promise Scholarship that tens of thousands of Michigan college students were counting on to pay for school, and deep cuts are expected to lead to teacher layoffs, increased class sizes and reduced programs across the states [...]
LANSING — Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was waiting in her Capitol office for a temporary spending bill that would re-open state government. The Michigan House had adjourned for the night. And gallery watchers early this morning were streaming out of the Capitol believing the budget battle of 2009 was over, just two hours after it had begun.
But the GOP-led Senate had another plan.
The $218 per pupil cut in education spending approved yesterday by House and Senate budget negotiators will mean 6,300 layoffs, immediate increases in class size and disruption of the current school year, the Michigan Education Association warned today. In a statement released this afternoon, MEA urged lawmakers to reject the proposed cuts which they say [...]
LANSING — A committee made up of members of the Michigan House and Senate voted to eliminated the Michigan Promise Scholarships on Wednesday on a 4-2 vote. Sen. Jim Barcia of Bay City and Rep. Joan Bauer of Lansing, both Democrats, cast the the two votes to continue the scholarship program. The move comes less [...]
The folks organizing a recall of Howell School Board members Jeannine Pratt, Debi Drick and Ed Literski are crying foul– and their movement is just getting off the ground. Organizers say a move by Jay Drick and Norm Pratt to sit in their cars at the local Baymont Inn where organizers held their first organization [...]
Language on a petition to recall three Howell school board members was approved yesterday. That means Jeannine Pratt, Debi Drick and Ed Literski will face recall petitions circulating in the community, reports the Ann Arbor News. Genoa Township resident and school district resident Deborah McCormick and her supporters have until July 31 to collect 5,000 [...]
The White House has released details of a community college plan President Obama will unveil in a speech in Warren on Tuesday afternoon. According to speech excerpts and the background briefing released by the White House, Obama will renew a February call to dramatically increase college graduation rates, and will add to this a call [...]
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