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12 of the 14 schools in the Big Ten have reportedly voted against moving forward with the upcoming college football season.

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Stateside: Big Ten cancels football; Indigenous reporters in MI newsrooms; rural schools’ plans

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Today on Stateside , were you planning on socially distanced tailgating this fall? Bad news: the Big Ten has reportedly voted against going forward with...

COVID creates unique challenges for rural districts. With small student populations and a large area to cover, how do rural schools plan to keep its students and community safe?

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Stateside: Rural schools’ challenges reopening; Shakespeare on Zoom; federal troops in Detroit

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Today on Stateside , we discuss the many legal questions surrounding the president’s authority to send federal agents into a city like Portland, or...

Reporter Justin Tinsley joined Stateside to discuss his recent article about Jon Vaughn, a former Michigan Football star and survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of Dr. Robert Anderson.

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Stateside: Reopening schools debate; systemic racism in the arts; UM athlete sexual abuse claims

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Today on Stateside, Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been vocal about her decision to only reopen schools if public health officials agree it is safe. What...

Epidemiologist Nigel Paneth, who is on the leadership team of the National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project, explained how antibodies from recovered COVID-19 patients may help with coronavirus prevention or treatment.

Stateside: Plasma antibody treatment; growing up in era of school shootings; Detroit’s lost studen

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Today on Stateside , hospitals and health workers are still looking for ways to safely interact with patients following the first COVID-19 surge in...

Michigan legislators announced $1.3 billion in spending for reopening schools in the fall. What will this funding look like in practice?

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Stateside: Sault Tribe chairman on Line 5; pandemic vacations; return to school plans

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Today on Stateside , recent developments with Enbridge’s Line 5 have lead Attorney General Dana Nessel to ask for a temporarily halt of operations....

You don't have to be a parent to have a stake in how public schools will handle classes this fall. Your workplace will likely be affected. The 120,000 member Michigan Education Association has also been thinking about how children will return to school.

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Stateside: Teachers weigh in on return to school; GR protests; Washtenaw sheriff on police training

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Today on Stateside , one sheriff shares what his department has learned about its own biases and discusses if proposed reforms for police departments...

Protests have spread across the country following police officers' excessive use of force against African Americans in Minneapolis and Southeast Michigan.

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Stateside: Protests over police violence; return of sports; graduating high school during a pandemic

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Today on Stateside , thoughts from a sociologist and a law professor about the marches in Detroit and Ann Arbor that drew attention to police officers’...

The Greenfields stepped out for a safe social distance interview at Veterans Memorial Park in Ann Arbor. Left to right: Heather, Jill, Sonja and Gregory Greenfield from left to right, with Allison Greenfield up front.

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Michigan schools, students, parents want clarity on school year

Rick Pluta

School officials in Michigan will have to make some tough decisions very soon about the rest of the school year. One of them is whether to send layoff…

Schools around the state are closing to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. That's left schools scrambling to figure out how to feed students who rely on free breakfast and lunch.

Stateside: Closed schools still feeding kids; tribal casinos’ hard choice; Flint’s poet laureate

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Today on Stateside , we checked in with two school districts about how they are planning to meet the needs of students during an unprecedented shutdown...