Government, Public Education
Democratic majorities in Lansing will target public charter schools(The Center Square) – Michigan Democrats and public school advocacy groups plan to regulate public charter schools among repealing the state's third-grade reading law and other education changes. Michigan Democrats… Read More
Culture, Public Education
Grand Rapids Public Schools’ COVID spending includes D.C. field trips, equity consulting(The Center Square) – Grand Rapids Public Schools received more than $100 million of COVID relief to help 14,000 kids recover from pandemic learning loss. The recovery spending ranged from… Read More
Public Education
Michigan Dems want to repeal third grade reading law, reform or repeal standardized testing(The Center Square) – Democrats seized a political trifecta in Lansing for the first time in 40 years, and now two legislators are suggesting changing the state's education policies. Sen. Read More
Culture, Public Education
Stephen Colbert said Tudor Dixon ‘made up’ story of dad who found explicit book at school. Dad says, ‘Just Google it’The story of what one dad found in his son's school is so shocking, late-night host Stephen Colbert said the political candidate who told it made it up. But the… Read More
Government, Public Education
Michigan ranks poorly in public school open-enrollment study(The Center Square) – Michigan has some catching up to do with other states when it comes to providing open enrollment opportunities for the state’s public-school students. The Reason Foundation’s … Read More
Public Education
Federal court to Ann Arbor Public Schools: stop gagging student speech on Proposal 3(The Center Square) – A federal court has ordered Ann Arbor Public Schools to stop gagging conservative students’ political speech about Proposal 3. The court order follows… Read More
Public Education
Michigan Gov. Whitmer’s pandemic school-closure claim heavily scrutinized(The Center Square) – The negative repercussions of the Michigan school closures include national test scores so low as to prompt state leaders to distance themselves from mandating extended… Read More
Public Education
Michigan governor candidates Whitmer, Dixon spar over education, abortion, and more in debate(The Center Square) – Education, abortion, energy and infrastructure were debated by Michigan gubernatorial candidates Tuesday night in the second of two debates with only a fortnight remaining before Election… Read More
Government
Michigan voters to decide between gubernatorial candidates taking opposing views on school choiceBoth candidates for Michigan governor have been highly vocal on education – but their views on school choice could hardly be any more different. Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer and GOP… Read More
Public Education
‘Parents are sick of it’: Michigan mom slams school board for silencing parents(Daily Caller) – A Michigan mom blasted the Dearborn school board for recessing a meeting during a Wednesday morning appearance on Fox News, claiming they tried to silence parents after… Read More
Culture
Fired physician assistant sues Michigan Health claiming termination over religious beliefs about gender(The Center Square) – A physician assistant who claims she was fired after seeking a religious exemption from referring patients for transgender care and using their preferred personal pronouns has… Read More
Culture
Michigan governor, Health Department mum on $50M request, abortion(The Center Square) – A request for $50 million in Michigan taxpayer funding of family planning services is as notable for what it does not say as what it does. Read More
Public Education
Contentious school board meeting over sexually explicit books ended by fire marshal, but was overcrowding the real reason?A large group of parents protesting sexually explicit books in the district’s libraries prompted the fire marshal to suspend a Michigan school board meeting Monday. But was overcrowding the real… Read More
State Government
Whitmer administration to hire ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘expression’ consultant for foster kids(Daily Caller) – The administration of Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed a contract for a child foster care consultant on gender identity and sexual orientation, according to documents made… Read More
Culture
Michigan mother sues school board over COVID-19 policy ‘retaliation’(The Center Square) – After Sandra Hernden voiced her opinion to the Chippewa Valley School District school board, she says the district retaliated. Now she’s suing the district with help… Read More
Culture, Public Education
Parent group challenges school district’s planned ‘Transgender Awareness Week’(Dailey Caller) – A grassroots initiative is sounding the alarm on a Michigan school district that plans to host a transgender awareness week in November. Bloomfield Hills School District in… Read More
Government
Dixon, conservative group campaign for parental rights in kids’ education(The Center Square) – While state Democrats are touting massive bipartisan public education spending increases during Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s first term, some Republicans this campaign season are… Read More
Culture
Some Michigan schools keep mum on COVID relief spending(The Center Square) – Theoretically, taxpayers should be able to see how Michigan schools are spending $5.7 billion of taxpayer money to recover from COVID-19-related learning loss. Read More
Public Education
Michigan schools use one-time COVID relief for pay increases, increasing long-term taxpayer burden(The Center Square) – Many Michigan schools are spending one-time federal COVID relief dollars on pay hikes that will increase the long-term taxpayer cost of education, according to more than… Read More
Culture
Christian group sues AG Nessel over civil rights interpretation(The Center Square) – A Christian health care group says that Michigan’s recently reinterpreted civil rights law relating to sexual orientation and gender identity violates its constitutional right to religion. Read More