K-12 Education

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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