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Hello! I’m Lori Higgins for Chalkbeat Detroit, here with your morning roundup of education news.

I’ve covered education in Michigan long enough to know the chaos school closures create in cities like Detroit, where parents seeking new schools for their children must wade through a ton of options. This spring, with four schools in the Detroit district closing and one charter school potentially closing, reporters from Chalkbeat Detroit and BridgeDetroit set out to talk to parents about how they’re navigating the challenging process of searching for schools. Here’s what we found.

Also, Hannah Dellinger has a story on data showing that nearly 84% of Detroit district high schoolers were paid for attendance this year. The payments come from an incentive program that paid students a $100 Visa gift card for each week they had perfect attendance from Jan. 5 through March 20. You can learn more details here.

How one Michigan school district boosted AP class enrollment nearly sixfold, Bridge Michigan

Michigan teacher resorts to ‘old school’ methods to combat rising AI use among students, The ‘Gander

How one small Michigan town is keeping a 99-year-old graduation tradition alive, MLive