April 30, 2021
Shaun Black, an assistant superintendent at the Detroit Public Schools Community District, was paid $130,000 in 2020.
In an op-ed published by Bridge Michigan, Black echoed a theme common among people advocating for higher spending on public schools: The current funding pattern is inequitable because it benefits affluent suburbs.
Black takes this step further by claiming the state s school funding system is an example of institutional racism.
“Inequitable funding of the K-12 system by the Michigan Legislature underscores a significant policy failure, and it also symbolizes a legacy of elitism and institutional racism in Michigan,” Black wrote. “This policy failure is equivalent to educational ‘redlining’ as the state has decided which school districts will receive additional per-pupil funding and which ones will not.”
Many metro Detroit schools see decline in enrollment after pandemic
Parents around metro Detroit are in the process of enrolling their children for kindergarten next school year.
Posted at 6:00 AM, Apr 30, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-30 07:06:00-04
(WXYZ) â Parents around metro Detroit are in the process of enrolling their children for kindergarten next school year.
Comparing this school year to last, the state reported a significant decrease in enrollment because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with some parents turning to homeschooling or simply delaying kindergarten. The homeschooling thing definitely had to do with the pandemic more than anything else. Just keeping her safe, Danielle McCauley said.
State education department says the law should be changed By
April 28, 2021
A recent state audit of 20 school districts found that 17 of them could not demonstrate they had set specific performance goals, as required by law, for 36% of their teachers.
A review of the 11 districts having first-year teachers found that four of them could not produce documents showing they had provided each of them with midyear progress reports, also a legal requirement. Roughly one in four new teachers (24%) did not receive those reports.
Auditors also looked at a sample of reports on evaluating teachers and administrators in the 20 districts. The districts had documents for 94% of the educators reviewed, but some of those documents lacked legally required components.
From USA TODAY Network and wire reports
Alabama
Montgomery: State lawmakers have inched closer to approving a ban on so-called vaccine passports that would require proof of COVID-19 vaccination to access services from a business or state agency. The House Health Committee voted Wednesday to send the bill to House of Representatives for a vote. It has already cleared the Senate. The bill contains a number of exceptions. Surgeons, dentists, medical institutions, hospitals and other health care providers are exempted. Universities could still require students to receive a vaccine; however, there would be exceptions for vaccines approved for “emergency use” by the FDA, as is the case with all three COVID-19 vaccines given in the United States thus far. The idea of vaccine passports is to have a document that shows a person has been inoculated against COVID-19. Federal officials say there are no plans to make them broadly mandatory, but some Republican governors have issued orders b
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