The new contract would include performance bonuses for attendance agents, higher maximum teacher salaries, and requirements around how many students with autism can be placed in general education homerooms.
Early childhood innovation, literacy bills, and Cooley demo
In Battle Creek, a new program providing free housing to early childhood educators launched on the same day Grand Rapids unveiled a new early childhood center located in a transit hub.
Parents, if you're searching for a school, we have tips for you
Detroit has a little more than 100 schools run by DPSCD and about 80 charter schools. Chalkbeat compiled expert tips to help parents navigate a complicated school choice system.
In the Detroit Public Schools Community District, four schools are shutting down. The Barack Obama Leadership Academy charter school may close if leaders aren’t able to find a new authorizer.
Pink slips, cancelled contracts, cutting employee health plans
From Florida to California, large school districts are poised to make painful budget cuts driven by inflation, enrollment declines, rising healthcare costs, and the end of pandemic aid.
Detroit’s Paul Robeson Malcolm X school gets new leadership as longtime principal is reassigned
Jeffery Robinson, principal at Paul Robeson Malcolm X Academy, will no longer lead the K-8 school due to several disciplinary incidents, Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said.
Two lawmakers in the Michigan House have introduced legislation that would allow school districts to waive key rules, such as seat-time requirements, to make it easier to implement innovative ideas.
Inequities in access to advanced classes in Michigan
The Education Trust-Midwest says students of color, students from low-income homes, students with disabilities, and students from rural and urban communities lack access to advanced classes.
