Michigan Legislature
Youth in the system are calling on the Michigan Department of Education to require schools to immediately release their transcripts.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s budget proposal would increase per-pupil funding by nearly $400 per student.
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.
Whitmer has also signed legislation that requires charter schools to publicly post teacher salary information and all public schools to allow indigenous students to wear traditional regalia to graduation ceremonies.
One issue we’re watching: a lawsuit the Detroit school district filed against the state over a dispute about millage revenue.
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.
Nine bills on charter schools are awaiting action in the waning days before Republicans take control of the state House.
Some student teachers at public preschools aren’t eligible for a $9,600 state stipend for unpaid work. This bill would make them eligible.
The bill has raised questions for some about safety and whether districts should have the freedom to make their own policies.
The budget would add another $125 million in grants for school districts this year.
The move comes after M-STEP results showed third grade reading proficiency was at an all-time low at the end of last school year.