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Michigan school vaccine exemptions have reached the highest level in more than two decades. Experts explain what’s driving the increase. Plus, find the vaccination rate for your local school district.

Today, Western Michigan University Preserended Russ Kavalhuna reflected on the controversial outcome of last weekend's football game with the University of Michigan Wolverines. Plus, why more and more students are attending school with vaccine waivers.

The number of parents getting vaccine waivers for their children has jumped once again. Just over 7% of school-age children in Michigan have one of those waivers.

Michigan For Vaccines, a new coalition of pro-vaccination health organizations, hopes to reverse the trend of falling vaccination rates in the state.

A decade ago, Michigan had high rates of parents not vaccinating their children, so it required them to attend an in-person education class to get an exemption. It worked — until things got ugly.

Whooping cough, for instance, is surging, with more than 1,500 cases already reported so far this year. That's compared to an average of less than 600 cases between 2017-2019, according to the state.

As schools return to near normalcy, we check in on the latest COVID numbers and vaccination rates. Then we hear about a West Michigan library's response to defunding over LGBTQ materials. And then we dig into this year's Detroit Month of Design.

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More Michigan parents are requesting vaccination waivers for their children.The rate dropped to 3.1% in 2015, after a new state law went into effect in…

A bill has been introduced in the state House that would require schools to post public notices about their students' vaccination rates.The bill would…