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Districts spotlighted in the audit couldn’t prove that new teachers had been assigned mentors or that teachers’ annual evaluations were based on a classroom visit — both of which are legal requirements.

Michigan has an older teaching population, and if many of them retire in the coming years, the state’s teacher shortage will be a crisis

Administrators say it will take a strong workforce to address academic challenges that worsened during the pandemic.

Michigan’s Black teacher workforce declined 48% between 2005 and 2015, far outpacing overall declines in the size of the state’s educator corps, according to a new study from Michigan State University.