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Whitmer Pushes Masking for Kindergarteners – Again

Posted by:cpickford Posted On:10 Aug 2021

The debate about masking school children, even kindergarteners, is heating up again. No, the science hasn’t changed. Young children remain the least susceptible to contracting COVID-19 and to spreading it, and the few who do get it tend to suffer


GLEP: CDC Not Driven By Science Or Data By Asking for Masks On All School-aged Children

Posted by:cpickford Posted On:27 Jul 2021

GLEP: CDC Not Driven By Science Or Data By Asking for Masks On All School-aged Children  LANSING – Great Lakes Education Project Executive Director Beth DeShone provided the following statement today in response to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)


House Democrats Slash $155 Million from School Children

Posted by:cpickford Posted On:27 Jul 2021

Democrats in the Michigan House of Representatives this week sunk to a new and surprising low. They voted en masse to slash education funding from students in kindergarten and elementary school who are struggling to read after a year of


House Democrats Slash $155 Million in Education Funding for Struggling Readers – That They Previously Enacted

Posted by:cpickford Posted On:21 Jul 2021

House Democrats Slash $155 Million in Education Funding for Struggling Readers – That They Previously Enacted  You Read That Right: House Democrats Flip Flop, Vote to Protect Veto of Bipartisan Reading Scholarships They Approved Themselves  LANSING – Great Lakes Education


Whitmer Slashes $155 Million in Education Funding for Struggling Readers

Posted by:cpickford Posted On:14 Jul 2021

Whitmer Slashes $155 Million in Education Funding for Struggling Readers  Governor Targets Elementary School Kids Who Need Help the Most by Cutting Bipartisan Reading Scholarship Program LANSING – Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) Executive Director Beth DeShone provided the following


Whitmer to Kids: ‘Masks are Back’

Posted by:cpickford Posted On:12 Jul 2021

Students are on summer vacation, but Governor Gretchen Whitmer and bureaucrats are already figuring out ways to make heading back to school this fall more difficult. The Governor and her health department recently published new, formal recommendations that school districts


Groundbreaking: Senate Votes to Put Kids First, Increasing School Funding to Eliminate the Public School Per-Pupil Funding Gap

Posted by:cpickford Posted On:30 Jun 2021

Groundbreaking: Senate Votes to Put Kids First, Increasing School Funding to Eliminate the Public School Per-Pupil Funding Gap Senate Budget Treats Students Equitably in Foundation Allowance, No Matter Where They Go to School, Funds Reading Scholarships  LANSING –The Great Lakes


Helping Struggling Readers, and Fully Funding Every Student

Posted by:cpickford Posted On:29 Jun 2021

Michigan’s 3rd Grade Reading law was written, approved by the legislature, and signed by the previous Governor because evidence and experience shows it’s an approach with remarkable benefits for kids – benefits that can improve the entire trajectory of their


Whitmer Flat Wrong to Push Healthy Kids to Wear Masks in 2021-2022 School Year

Posted by:cpickford Posted On:25 Jun 2021

Whitmer Flat Wrong to Push Healthy Kids to Wear Masks in 2021-2022 School Year LANSING – Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) Executive Director Beth DeShone offered the following response today to new recommendations from Governor Gretchen Whitmer that elementary school


Decades in the Making: House Puts Kids First, Increasing School Funding to Eliminate the Public School Per-Pupil Funding Gap

Posted by:cpickford Posted On:24 Jun 2021

Decades in the Making: House Puts Kids First, Increasing School Funding to Eliminate the Public School Per-Pupil Funding Gap House School Aid Budget Treats Students Fairly, Equitably in Foundation Allowance, No Matter Where They Go to School  LANSING –The Great