K-12 Education

Many schools in northern Michigan have college enrollment rates below the state average. Mobility rates — doing better than your parents — is as low in some rural areas as urban ones, and those who go to college often have no choice but to move because of a lack of jobs.

Mesick schools pulled screens from elementary classrooms to boost literacy scores. Some experts say there are risks that students could fall behind in the digital age.

Students at Traverse City West Senior High School say the $11,000 project to install 14 solar panels could teach them how renewable energy works.

Whitmer spoke on the playground of Blair Elementary School, just across the street from a planned development site for education workforce housing on land already owned by TCAPS.

A consortium of four educational institutions has been working for two years on a project to build affordable housing units for school staff, and recently secured $5 million from the state’s Labor and Economic Opportunity budget specifically for their project.

Bills to let public school workers deduct union dues from their pay checks, prevent wage freezes during negotiations, and expand topics available for bargaining were signed into Michigan law this week.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was in Northern Michigan Thursday to sign the new pre-K-through-12th-grade education budget.

Spencer Byrd was hired to fill the top spot in March after working in education for more than 30 years.

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