Talent & Education

A recently reintroduced bill in the Michigan House would encourage cursive instruction in public schools.

Most Michigan schools don’t have a full-time librarian. They’re required in Mississippi, where reading scores are higher.

A judge has turned down requests for new trials by the parents of the Oxford High School shooter despite saying prosecutors willfully failed to disclose agreements with two key witnesses.

A new bill would prohibit food distributors from providing schools with food containing eight synthetic ingredients.

Lawyers for three victims of the 2023 MSU campus shooting have announced settlements with the university.

Pro-Palestinian activists accused the private security company of following them on and off campus.

While Corey Rosser’s students may have struggled with the traditional format of schooling, at Quest High School, he’s pushing them to new limits.

Twenty years into the Kalamazoo Promise scholarship program, officials say they’re having to work harder to help kids succeed and even graduate from high school.

Michigan lawmakers are questioning if the state is doing enough to ensure students are reading on grade level. State Superintendent Michael Rice says changes from two laws passed last year will help.

The Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the state’s universities, voted against Santa Ono, who was most recently president of the University of Michigan.

In Michigan, birth rates are declining and schools of choice options are increasing. School district leaders say they are trying to attract more students. But consolidation remains unpopular.

Career tech students in Houghton needed hands-on experience. So they spent a year building a house. It went up for sale last weekend.

The Trump administration intends to revoke visas from Chinese students. More than 6,000 attend Michigan universities, including U-M where 8% of students are from China.

Education advocates want voters to decide whether those making $500,000 or more should pay more in taxes to help schools. A ballot measure would go on the gubernatorial ballot.

The Michigan Supreme Court had dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021. The order ends efforts to hold employees partly responsible for the mass shooting.

Michigan State University tells departments to cut 9% and prepare for the possibility of eliminating low-enrollment student academic programs.

Teachers are often in silos, focused on one group of students or one subject area. Not anymore in Concord Community schools and Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are trying ‘team teaching.’

Tensions are high again in Ottawa County, as staffers quit the Patmos Library after a conservative board takes over.

Grasso has led the University of Michigan-Dearborn since 2018. He is stepping in as Ono resigns to become University of Florida president but is not expected to be a candidate for the permanent position.

Voters defeated slightly more than half of the requests to borrow money for improvements, a lower success rate than normal for May election. Voters in Democratic-leaning districts were more likely to approve bonds.