A budget agreement is in the works that would lessen the blow to K-12 school districts from Gov. Rick Snyder's proposed budget, The Detroit News reports. The new plan reduces the proposed $300 per-pupil cut to a $100 per-pupil cut, the article said. The report cites Ari Adler, a spokesman ...
The Ann Arbor Board of Education recently held a session with Michigan lawmakers to discuss the state funding crisis and its impact on the public schools. Prior to that event, Liz Margolis, the communications director for Ann Arbor Public Schools, appeared on The Lucy Ann Lance Business Insider on 1290 ...
Growing up on a Michigan dairy farm set the stage for Eastern Michigan University President Susan Martin. After taking a test in high school and scoring well, she earned a scholarship that paid her tuition and fees at Central Michigan University. She was a first-generation college student in her family, ...
Are university and college administrations justified in blaming the current economy as validation for putting drastic practices into place, such as hiring and salary freezes, furloughs and layoffs, often with little or no faculty input? I am convinced that, at many higher education establishments, the recession is not impacting their ...
The state has thrown its support behind efforts by Packard Health and Washtenaw County to receive a federal designation that officials say would help improve health care access to a growing number of uninsured people within the county. Gov. Jennifer Granholm recently signed a letter asking a federal agency to ...
After being battered for the last several years by free-falling enrollment, the Willow Run school district received a glimmer of hope that a turn-around may be in the cards during the “spring count” of its students. According to Acting Superintendent Laura Lisiscki, the district grew during the course of the ...
The Washtenaw County Board of Road Commissioners this week approved a series of service level adjustments aimed at reducing costs. Road Commission officials said the adjustments, which will save $1.4 million, were approved as proposed earlier this year during the public comment stage.
Each day we hear more about the key to reviving Michigan is to transform our state from a manufacturing economy to one driven by knowledge industries. Michigan can only attract these new industries with a well-educated, literate workforce. Despite Michigan’s desperate need for access to knowledge and education, the Library ...
Libraries are under enormous pressure in difficult economic times as citizens use their libraries to search for jobs online, write resumes, file for unemployment, file for disability, often all via the internet for little to no cost. As Michigan transitions to a knowledge-based economy dependent on technology and information, Michigan's ...
University of Michigan researchers have earned $61.1 million in grants fueled by the federal stimulus package passed by Congress earlier this year. The funding, which comes to U-M through nearly 160 grants, including 113 from the National Institutes of Health, is the most received by any U.S. university to date. ...
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