News Briefs
The Detroit school board last week approved a plan from a state review team to address the district’s financial problems.
November 10, 2008
Without the budget deficits of recent years, Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm is pushing a number of major education proposals.
February 4, 2008
The governor and lawmakers agreed to a 1 percent hike in education spending as they sought to keep the state from veering into a second government shutdown this fall.
November 21, 2007
The Oregon case involves a lawsuit filed by a high school teacher who contends she should be allowed to carry a licensed concealed weapon on campus.
October 1, 2007
More than two-thirds of the 90 Michigan schools that reached the final stage of sanctions under the No Child Left Behind Act during the 2005-06 school year chose "turnaround specialists" as their strategy for improvement, according to the latest in a series of studies by the Washington-based Center on Education Policy examining the impact of the federal education law.
March 30, 2007
The next leader of the troubled Detroit public schools hails from a district only one-twentieth the size of the Motor City’s, but she insists she can get the job done.
March 20, 2007
School leaders are planning to serve 111,000 students—a drop of 5,000 from last year.
August 23, 2007
The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous action on April 2 was not a ruling on the merits of the lawsuit, but it was the final buzzer in a legal contest that lasted nine years.
April 10, 2007
Leaders of the Saulte Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians have said they would shut down the school as a charter entity rather than accept a union.
February 13, 2007
Under the proposed plan, a portion of property-tax revenue would go to communities that already have committed substantial money to scholarships.
February 13, 2007
Michigan voters in November approved a ballot measure that barred racial preferences in admissions to state universities.
January 22, 2007
A continuing dispute between the local teachers’ union and school administrators has some education officials in Detroit worried that several alternative schools that opened in August to lure high school dropouts back to the classroom will be forced to close.
January 9, 2007
A continuing dispute between the local teachers' union and school administrators has some education officials in Detroit worried that several alternative schools that opened in August to lure high school dropouts back to the classroom will be forced to close.
December 28, 2006
Less than four years after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly upheld the consideration of race in admissions at the University of Michigan’s law school, the court returns Dec. 4 to the highly charged topic of racial diversity in education.
November 22, 2006
Just days after Michigan voters approved a ballot measure to bar “preferential treatment” for women and minorities in university admissions and state programs, a coalition of civil rights and labor advocates and students launched a court challenge seeking to prevent it from taking effect.
November 14, 2006
