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No hearings, but plenty of DPS talk Hearings on SB 710 & 711 (Hansen), the DPS reform bills in the Government Operations Committee have yet to be scheduled, but we understand negotiations continue behind-the-scenes to determine both the level of
Posted by: Posted On:22 Jan 2016
Christopher Klaver, Gongwer, January, 20 2016 — While headlines for years have been on Detroit Public Schools’ debt and academic performance, the real battleground over a reform plan might be the ease with which one can add and remove school desks in
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DPS Reform Bills (Finally) Introduced Last week, Sen. Goeff Hanson (R-Hart), Chair of the School Aid Appropriations Subcommittee, introduced SB 710 and SB 711, bills to address financial issues at the Detroit Public Schools. The key features of the bill
Posted by: Posted On:20 Jan 2016
MIRS Newsletter (January 20, 2016) — With talk that the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) will run out of funds as early as April, today’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) panel discussion on Detroit Public Schools: Quality, Accountability, and Governance resulted
Posted by: Posted On:14 Jan 2016
Pass early literacy legislation, letter grading system for schools; develop a dissolution plan for Detroit Public School District LANSING, MI – The Great Lakes Education Project today called for the legislature to pass legislation dealing with K-3 reading proficiency and
Posted by: Posted On:11 Jan 2016
Detroit School Children Deserve Better as More Than 60 District Schools Close Due to Illegal “Sickouts” LANSING, MI – The Great Lakes Education Project today called for the dissolution of the Detroit Public School District, as an illegal work
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Legislature wraps up for the calendar year The State Senate and House of Representatives have finished up their work for the year, and they are officially on recess until January 13, 2016. While there was much activity during the final
Posted by: Posted On:16 Dec 2015
Using a law with ugly anti-Catholic roots to deny education options for children. Michael Bindas, The Wall Street Journal December 10, 2015 — Anti-Catholicism has been called America’s last acceptable prejudice. Acceptable or not, it is enshrined in the constitutions
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President Obama signs ESSA to replace ESEA/NCLB Yesterday, President Obama signed into law S. 1177, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces the outdated Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) laws, which expired
Posted by: Posted On:4 Dec 2015
U.S. House passes ESSA to replace ESEA/NCLB On Monday this week the U.S. House of Representatives passed, on an overwhelming bi-partisan vote of 359-64, S. 1777, the “Every Student Achieves Act” (ESSA), a bill to replace the long-expired ESEA/NCLB. When’s