Lori Higgins, Chalkbeat Detroit

Less focus has been paid to the role employers can play in the fight to improve attendance.

Many Michigan schools were built before 1970, a new report shows. How can districts cover the costs to get schools up to health and safety standards?

Michigan leaders cite several reasons for the increase: opportunities to make up class credit, career and tech classes that students enjoy and more.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s education budget proposal for the 2025-26 school year would require elementary schools to notify parents if they are using a high-quality curriculum to teach students.

Despite improvement in fourth-grade math, results of the National Assessment of Education Progress tell a familiar story in Detroit. Some blame chronic absenteeism.

The Detroit school district is hoping its new incentive program will motivate students to attend school daily and improve its 66% chronic absenteeism rate.

The state four-year high school graduation rate for 2023 is up slightly from 2022. See how your school district did.

Michigan public school enrollment has declined by 16% since 2003. The expiration of COVID relief dollars could force difficult decisions for district leaders.

More than 3-in-10 Michigan students are chronically absent, missing 18 or more days of school during the year. See high absentee rates in your school district.

Some workers had never been fingerprinted, and others worked weeks or years before they were fingerprinted, the state audit found.

The $100,000 salary is being offered at a Detroit charter school to increase the number of certified teachers and improve student outcomes.

The Michigan Senate version of the school aid budget passed Thursday on a 20-17 vote, a day after the House approved its version.

Child care providers who attended Monday’s rally in Detroit say they don’t receive enough funding to pay their staff and themselves adequate salaries.

The Education Trust-Midwest report calls for a weighted funding system for schools that provides far more money to educate low-income and other vulnerable students.

Michigan’s Read by Grade 3 law requires struggling third-grade readers be held back, but exemptions meant only 545 students were held back this year. Struggling readers who were Black or low-income were far more likely to repeat third grade white, more affluent readers who struggled.

The discussion was part of an effort to revisit naming decisions made when the district was overseen by state-appointed emergency managers

Administrators say it will take a strong workforce to address academic challenges that worsened during the pandemic.

A new report issues dire warnings for employers, saying COVID made a ‘bad situation worse.’

Keeping students in classrooms amid a volatile pandemic remains an all-consuming topic for school leaders. Children are suffering from years of disruption as districts weigh how to spend billions in additional federal dollars.

Parents in the Detroit Public Schools Community District have until Jan. 31 to turn in COVID testing consent forms if they want their children to learn in person.