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We discussed trade talks with Canada, cuts to SNAP benefits, childcare costs, and Michigan’s recently passed education budget. Also, tune in for the story of one high school’s attempt to ban Elvis haircuts in October of 1956.
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Michigan school districts are required to ask voters to approve operating millages. Here’s what you need to know about the millage on your ballot in the November 4 election.
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The Michigan Board of Education made its choice for the state's next superintendent Tuesday. Glenn Maleyko is currently the superintendent of Dearborn Public Schools.
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Records show that parents of Michigan students who receive special education services are increasingly having to fight for services that are supposed to be guaranteed by law.
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Some Michigan teachers are taking on summer side hustles as a result of low pay in schools. Then, how Congress's major tax and spending plan affects rural hospitals. Plus, a new book created for older elementary students reading below grade-level.
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Michigan K-12 students are supposed to get a minimum of 180 days of classroom instruction, but Superintendent Michael Rice says in reality, it's nowhere near that.
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Three students died in the February 2023 shooting spree on the East Lansing campus. Five other students were wounded. The gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot.
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Ford says a new mid-sized electric truck is on the way, priced at just $30,000. Michigan teachers are earning thousands of dollars less than the national average, and a recent study says Michiganders want to pay them more. A writer and translator drifts from the Adriatic to the Aegean in the upcoming novel by a professor at Wayne State.
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Michigan superintendents in the Dearborn, Dexter, Harrison, and Huron Valley school districts are among the seven semifinalists for the state’s top education leader position. Next week is the first round of interviews.
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State Superintendent Michael Rice says it's "unacceptable" that the state House and state Senate have failed to agree on a school aid budget.
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State Superintendent Michael Rice is urging Michigan school districts to continue offering free school meals at the start of the school year, despite uncertainty about whether the state will provide funding for the meals program.
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The Legislature already blew past a self-imposed deadline of passing a budget by July 1. But Whitmer says there's still plenty of time to reach a deal before the state's fiscal year ends.