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Hello! It’s Lori from Chalkbeat Detroit, here with your morning roundup of education news.
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Today’s featured story is from Lily Altavena, Chalkbeat’s national reporter, who traveled to Mesick, Michigan recently to write about an elementary school where a ban on screens is putting the focus on books, and a goal to improve literacy. You can read more about why the district’s leadership decided to ban digital devices.
Also, check out this story from Bridge Michigan about a visit Friday to metro Detroit by U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon. She visited Hamtramck Academy, a charter school, to promote the Trump administration’s school tax-credit scholarship plan.
Local News
U.S. Education Secretary McMahon says Michigan should join Trump’s school tax-credit plan
Twenty-seven states have already joined the Trump administration’s federal tax-credit scholarship program, which give donors tax credits for contributing to scholarship funds for K-12 students
Around Chalkbeat
This elementary school banned screens in the middle of the year. Will it solve their reading crisis?
Chromebooks and iPads are untouched in classrooms at a rural elementary school in northern Michigan. School leaders hope that more books and less screen time for students will solve a literacy crisis.
No more diapers or sweeping punishments: How Philly parents helped guarantee student bathroom breaks
By sharing stories about students wearing diapers and draconian classroom punishments, Lift Every Voice’s successful push for policy change is a case study in parent activism.
Trump pressured states to limit undocumented high school students’ access to career education programs
Exclusive Chalkbeat reporting found Virginia school districts agreed to exclude some immigrant students from educational opportunities to receive federal funds from the U.S. Education Department.
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What We’re Reading
Canceled classes and tech damages. How year-ago ice storm impacted schools, Petoskey News-Review (Paywall)
Unlocking Michigan’s talent: Why language support must replace labels, Michigan Advance (Opinion)
As more K-12 schools drop libraries, worry grows about impact, Spartan Newsroom
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Thumbnail image by Kristen Norman for Chalkbeat
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