LANSING The number of future educators in Michigan is on the rise once again after a severe dip in enrollment in teaching programs. The Michigan Departme
WASHINGTON Raised on welfare by his grandmother, Joseph Sais relied so much on food stamps as a college student that he thought about quitting school when h
Local middle and high schools benefit
Feb 24, 2021
Marquette Youth Advisory Committees members are shown after volunteering along a portion of the Iron Ore Heritage Trail the group adopted to maintain. YAC has awarded more grants to benefit local middle and high schools. (Photo courtesy of the Community Foundation of Marquette County)
MARQUETTE The Youth Advisory Committees of the Community Foundation of Marquette County has announced the distribution of 18 grants to nonprofits to support youth programming. There are three YAC groups in the county, including the Marquette, Negaunee and Ishpeming areas, with members from local middle and high schools.
Despite the restrictions and hurdles presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the groups have volunteered on several community projects and continue supporting local nonprofits with grants.
JOHN LEICESTER
Dr. Clair Vandersteen, right, wafts a tube of odors under the nose of a patient, Gabriella Forgione, during tests in a hospital in Nice, southern France, on Feb. 8 to help determine why she has been unable to smell or taste since she contracted COVID-19 in November. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, doctors and researchers are still striving to better understand and treat the accompanying epidemic of COVID-19-related anosmia loss of smell draining much of the joy of life from an increasing number of sensorially frustrated longer-term sufferers like Forgione. (AP photo)
NICE, France The doctor slid a miniature camera into the patient’s right nostril, making her whole nose glow red with its bright miniature light.
COLLIN BINKLEY
The Education Department said Monday that it will not allow states to forgo federally required standardized testing in schools this year but will give them flexibility to delay testing or hold it online during the pandemic.
Aiming for a middle ground in a polarized debate, the Biden administration said states must continue with annual testing but can apply to be exempted from certain accountability measures tied to the results.
States also will be allowed to move tests to the summer or fall, or they can offer shortened tests or online assessments.
In a letter to state education chiefs on Monday, Ian Rosenblum, an acting assistant education secretary, said testing will help schools understand the impact of the pandemic and how to help students.