Kindergarten classes in Escanaba and Dearborn are quite similar, with 5-year-olds wiggling in their chairs and brightly-colored artwork lining the walls. But when children walked out of those classrooms in the spring of 2011, they faced different futures.
In Escanaba Area Public Schools, almost 40 percent of the children were told they weren’t moving on to first grade and would be taking a second year of kindergarten; in Dearborn City Schools, less than 2 percent were asked to repeat kindergarten.
The chances of your child repeating kindergarten is not related to academics or maturity, but geography. A Bridge Magazine analysis revealed kindergarten retention rates in Michigan ranging from about 1 percent to more than 45 percent – a disparity that bears no relation to academic outcomes, poverty or race.
UCS receives grant to encourage students to explore careers in teaching By: Kara Szymanski | C&G Newspapers | Published April 9, 2021
Henry Ford II High School senior Trezeta Halaq works with a Graebner Elementary School kindergarten student in the Future Educator program.
Photo provided by Tim McAvoy
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UTICA/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/STERLING HEIGHTS The Utica Community Schools district recently received a Future Proud Michigan Explore grant from the Michigan Department of Education to help encourage students who are interested in teaching careers to explore teaching further.
The $10,000 grant will allow the district to expand its Future Educator program in ways such as expanding education career information at the junior high level. The Life Skills program at that level can have more than its current 60 students and specifically concentrate on cultivating interest in secondary education, special education and programs that support
Whitmer urges virtual school classes, no youth sports for two weeks
Lansing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is strongly urging Michigan s high schools to suspend in-person classes and youth sports for two weeks as well as asking diners to avoid eating at restaurant indoors for the same period to combat a surge in cases and hospitalizations. We all need to go above and beyond the rules that are already in place, she said.
The governor also asked people to avoid indoor gatherings in general and pushed for more people to get the vaccine. But Whitmer avoided having her state health department director issue new epidemic orders to require the actions.
Eisenhower returns to remote learning following increase in COVID cases
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SHELBY TOWNSHIP Eisenhower High School has returned to fully remote learning after the school saw a high number of COVID-19 cases being reported in the last week of March.
After learning of 37 COVID cases and having to quarantine more than 400 students, the school district’s leadership decided to have students return to fully remote learning starting March 23 and remain remote until after spring break.
Students are out of school for spring break this week. Classes will resume remotely April 12, and the school will be looking to return to in-person learning April 19.
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