The legislation will require school districts to create behavior threat assessment teams and create more stringent emergency response protocols.

The Senate passed a few of Democrats’ charter school reform bills Thursday night. Bills that would have required more financial transparency died in the House.

The walkouts mean Democrats may not have enough votes to pass their legislative education priorities before they lose control of state government.

During a lame duck session, Senate Democrats approved bills that could require more financial transparency for charter schools.

The district wants legal clarity on whether it can use operating millage revenue to pay off all of its historic debt.

The introduction of the bills comes in the final days of Democrats’ control of the state legislature.

Lawmakers pushed the bills forward days after the three-year anniversary of the deadly Oxford school shootings.

The legislation would stop schools from forbidding Indigenous students from wearing traditional regalia to graduation ceremonies.

Charter schools have been in Michigan for almost 30 years. Here are some major events in their history.

One of the proposals would prohibit for-profit management companies from leasing property to the charter schools they run.