In the Detroit Public Schools Community District, the graduation rate is 78% while the dropout rate is 16.15%.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s education budget will be proposed a week after NAEP scores show Michigan students aren’t significantly improving in reading and math.

Fourth and eighth graders did not make significant improvements to reading and math scores on the “nation’s report card” since historic lows in 2022.

The standardized test results offer a first look at how Michigan kids who enrolled in kindergarten and first grade during COVID shutdowns are performing.

One of the high points in the graduation rate data released Friday: the Lansing School District, where the rate has increased dramatically since 2021.

‘It is hard,’ says one teacher about the challenge of teaching about a complex conflict. ‘But it's also what we want to be doing.’

Some observers say they wish Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had gone further in shaking up Michigan’s education system.