A story in Thursday's Michigan Report with comments from Superintendent of Public Instruction Michael Rice on the most recent education budget should have said he was disappointed in the mental funding decrease included in the 2024-25 fiscal year budget for K-12 schools.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Michael Rice reflected on what became a complex and controversial budget process for Michigan public schools in a Thursday interview with Gongwer News Service, saying the lack of a per-pupil funding increase was mostly just bad optics given the reduction in what educators would pay toward retirement, but was also critical of a significant decrease in mental health funding.
A new report from Michigan State University's Education Policy Innovation Collaborative found that while teachers across the state are utilizing a wide range of curriculum resources to teach English Language Arts, a majority are using tools that are either unrated or found to fall short of expectations set by evaluation organizations.
A new report from Michigan State University's Education Policy Innovation Collective found that during the three years the state's Read by Grade Three retention policies were in effect, economically disadvantaged students and students of color were held back in school at a disproportionately high rate.
The State Board of Education adopted a resolution Tuesday calling for the Legislature to mandate and fund an independent review of the mass shooting that took place at Oxford High School in 2021.
Michigan's students have increased graduation rates in 10 out of the last 12 years but continue to have a significant chronic absenteeism and truancy problem, Department of Education officials told the State Board of Education on Tuesday.
Central Michigan University is the new recipient of a $15 million grant aimed at increasing the certified teacher workforce in rural school districts.
The Department of Education announced Thursday that it had seen a 100 percent increase in schools offering free meals since the enactment of the Michigan School Meals Program.
The state's high school graduation rates hit their second-highest levels ever, behind only 2020 when graduation requirements were temporarily relaxed due to the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced Friday.
Budget Director Jen Flood told the head of the Department of Education the time has passed for the agency to be in the planning stages of administering literacy grant dollars, and it is now time to act.