Low school attendance sabotages COVID-19 pandemic recovery efforts, tanks school reforms, and disrupts entire classrooms. Here’s what is at stake for Detroit students.
LANSING — Michigan will soon accept applications for $10,000 scholarships that will be awarded to as many as 2,500 students studying to become teachers and maximum $9,600 stipends per semester for student teachers.The application period will open Monday.The state budget that took effect this…
Declines across the country on the National Assessment of Educational Progress were expected, but were called “appalling and unacceptable,” by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
The latest national testing underscores the pandemic’s toll on math and reading scores. Michigan’s fourth-graders had the lowest reading scores in 30 years. Black and low-income students fell further behind white, more affluent students.