87 infected in new coronavirus outbreaks at 20 schools, says Michigan’s Feb. 15 school outbreak report
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
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The biggest outbreak involves 24 students and staff at Forest Hills Central High School near Grand Rapids.
The three colleges with outbreaks involved nine students at Cleary University in Howell; eight students at Lawrence Tech in Southfield, and two students at College of Creative Studies in Detroit.
New K-12 school outbreaks also were identified in 10 counties. Below are those outbreaks listed by county:
Antrim County: Elk Rapids High School, two students.
Calhoun County: Westlake Elementary in Battle Creek, three students and staff.
Gladwin County: Gladwin Junior High, two students.
Dec 16, 2020
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission, tasked with rooting out discrimination in the state, has in effect called for the discrimination against 150,000 charter school students by saying they should be funded less than other public school children. It’s hard to miss the irony.
In a report released earlier this fall, “Education Equity in Michigan,” the commission made some valid recommendations, but it also jumped on the charter-bashing bandwagon.
The most alarming advice the report offers is that the state change its school funding model and cut support for charter school students by 25%. The idea is to bolster the budgets of traditional public schools that have lost students to neighboring charters. Yet charter schools already receive about 20% less funding than their counterparts as they don’t get any state funding for their facilities.