Six Education Issues We’re Closely Watching In Michigan In 2021 Patch 1/7/2021
The year 2020 may be over, but the challenges it brought to schools across the state because of the pandemic will persist for months and possibly longer.
This new year brings plenty of questions about how Michigan’s public schools will continue to adapt to new ways of learning, as well as the pandemic’s long-term effects.
It’s been nearly 10 months since the first cases of COVID-19 hit, forcing schools to shift to online learning. The first half of this school year has been marked by debates about the safety of reopening schools, concerns about student achievement and student mental health, and the disappearance of thousands of students.
Grantees announced for 2021 Lions Inspire Change social justice initiative Dec 31, 2020 at 09:55 AM Copied!
Allen Park, Mich. The Detroit Lions announced today a list of grantees for 2021 who will receive funding generated by the team s social justice initiative,
Detroit Lions Inspire Change
Launched by Lions players and ownership following the conclusion of the 2018 NFL season,
Detroit Lions Inspire Change will invest $490,000 in financial support through grants to 11 Metro Detroit organizations next year.
During the 2020 season, Detroit Lions players identified supporting families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with providing resources to individuals in the City of Detroit, as key priorities for the
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The academic achievement gap between black and white students has proven resistant to most educational policy changes. Some say that educational expenditures explain the gap, but is that true? Look at educational per pupil expenditures: Baltimore city ranks fifth in the U.S. for per pupil spending at $15,793. The Detroit Public Schools Community District spends more per student than all but eight of the nation s 100 largest school districts, or $14,259. New York City spends $26,588 per pupil, and Washington, D.C., spends $21,974. There appears to be little relationship between educational expenditures and academic achievement.
The Nation s Report Card for 2017 showed the following reading scores for fourth-graders in New York state s public schools: Thirty-two percent scored below basic, with 32% scoring basic, 27% scoring proficient and 9% scoring advanced. When it came to black fourth-graders in the state, 19% scored proficient, and 3% scored advanced.
December 18, 2020
Not one of Michigan’s 10 largest public school districts have currently opened classes for live instruction. Each of these districts has limited all grades and all students to online, remote instruction only. The 10 districts enrolled 204,449 children in the 2019-20 school year, or 14.2% of all public school students statewide.
The Detroit Public Schools Community District offered face-to-face instruction from Sept. 8 through Nov. 16 and suspended the face-to-face school instruction due to the elevated number of COVID-19 cases, according to the school district.
All told, as of early December there were 398 Michigan school districts in the state, or 48% of all districts, where no classrooms were open for live instruction and all students were limited to online instruction only according to the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative. In just 11 districts, or 1%, where all children can still go to school for in-person teaching in all subjects. The other 51
Even with new connected devices, almost a third of Detroit schools students are missing
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DTE Energy Co. volunteers Joanne Taylor (left) and Yolanda Shaw (center) train with Chanita Hill, DPSCD IT Field Service Specialist to help Detroit Public Schools Community District students in picking up their new computer tablets at Cass Technical High School in Detroit.
With Detroit public schools returned to full online learning, an average of 30 percent of students are still not attending. As a second coronavirus wave hits Michigan, Detroit Public Schools Community District is leaning on the wireless internet-enabled tablets it distributed to more than 44,000 out of 51,000 students over the summer and fall from a $23 million public-private fund dubbed Connected Futures.