The Detroit Free Press has an interesting story today about actions in the state Legislature regarding schools. Those include a possible override of Gov. Granholm's cut to the 20J funding for some districts, including Ann Arbor, and also talk about a statewide panel being set up to recommend consolidation of ...
Two University of Michigan professors will hold a conversation on a new National Educational Technology Plan Wednesday. Dan Atkins from the school of information and Barry Fishman from the school of education are both members of the technical work group putting together the plan. The plan aims to assemble goals ...
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that the state Legislature has passed a budget for aid to schools. According to the deal worked out in the late-night hours, schools would lose $165 per pupil under the plan. That will create a budget hit for local school districts, but is less ...
It seems that lawmakers in Lansing can't make up their minds on how much money to cut from schools. Here's Peter Luke's story about it.
Note: This story has been corrected; the millage would raise $30 million per year, not $30 million over five years. We'll further update the story Monday.A new countywide school enhancement tax would raise about $30 million for local school districts, helping to alleviate budget problems in many districts. The money, ...
Washtenaw County’s poor students continue to struggle to graduate more than any other group of students, recently released statistics show. Just over six of 10 students in the county’s class of 2008 who were classified as poor managed to get their high school diploma in four years, according to data from ...
Fewer than half the students in the Willow Run school district's class of 2008 graduated from high school in four years, recently released statistics from the Michigan Department of Education show. That’s the lowest graduation rate of any school district in Washtenaw County and a drop of almost nine percentage ...
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