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Michigan schools on hiring spree. Can it reverse ‘Titanic’ learning losses?

July 22, 2025 Mike Wilkinson, Ron French, Isabel Lohman in

Talent & Education

Michigan has 21,000 more teacher aides than a decade ago helping a shrinking population of schoolkids. Hiring more adults has yet to reverse learning skids, but one lawmaker likens it to turning around the Titanic.

Fortress Grosse Pointe: In world of school choice, community says ‘stay out’

June 16, 2013 Nancy Derringer in

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‘Sanity caucus’ shepherds preschool reform, dollars through capital gridlock

June 6, 2013 Phil Power in

Class in Upper Peninsula school sparks students’ interest in powering the world

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On horizon for preschools: More public-private partnerships

May 30, 2013 Ron French in

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State adopts ‘nation’s largest’ expansion of early childhood funding

May 30, 2013 Ron French in

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Michigan moves into national forefront of preschool funding

May 30, 2013 Ron French in

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Long-simmering GOP-MEA ‘war’ intensifies going into 2014

May 7, 2013 Rick Haglund in

Region struggles with sick economy, sick families

April 30, 2013 Ron French in

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Schools, colleges aren’t preparing students for careers in Michigan

April 30, 2013 Phil Power in

Bridge sweeps online news category in Detroit SPJ contest

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Consensus on Common Core school standards evaporating

April 18, 2013 Chris Andrews in

Talent & Education

Change the school focus from spending more to spending smart

April 16, 2013 Phil Power in

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