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Governor Whitmer Creates the Student Recovery Advisory Council
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LANSING, Mich. Governor Whitmer today signed Executive Order 2021-02, to create the Student Recovery Advisory Council of Michigan. As Michigan continues to work around the clock to eliminate COVID-19, the Student Recovery Council will provide guidance and recommendations to ensure Michigan students have the tools and resources they need to get back on track.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Michigan hard, and our students, families, teachers, and school staff have all felt the strain. Still, our educators have worked tirelessly to teach our children during this pandemic under the most stressful conditions, and for that our state is forever indebted to them for their service,” said
Local district chief appointed to lead state recovery advisory council
Panel will work to repair academic, mental health impacts of pandemic
Kevin Polston, Godfrey-Lee superintendent
Godfrey-Lee, All Districts Governor Gretchen Whitmer has formed a Student Recovery Advisory Council for the state of Michigan and named Godfrey-Lee Superintendent Kevin Polston to serve as chairperson, the governor’s office announced on Thursday.
The council will guide the work of helping the state’s education system recover from the traumatic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a goal of ensuring all Michigan students have the tools and resources they need to get back on track. Its recommendations will focus on academic recovery; social, emotional, and mental health of students and educators; physical health and wellbeing; and potential out-of-school academic support.
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At fourteen, his mom brought him to a city hundreds of miles from his home in Birmingham. Grand Rapids was the place where he’d build his empire.
“I started in ’53,” McClain said. “I must ve been 19 or 20.”
He founded Jim’s Asphalt and Paving, the first minority-owned asphalt company in Grand Rapids.
“Ain t too many streets around town I wasn’t on,” McClain said. “We were busy all the time… widening, putting them in, I did a lot of things.”
He literally paved the way for the city and county we know, now three-times the size.
“It came a long way.”
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New council to focus on helping Michigan students recover from COVID-19 education disruptions
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 04, 2021
Students wear their masks during class at All Saints Central Middle and High School in Bay City on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (Kaytie Boomer | MLive.com)Kaytie Boomer | MLive.com
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With Michigan schools encouraged to resume in-person learning by March 1 and winter sports reauthorized, school is starting to look more familiar. But with students having been separated from school support systems for so long, a new council is tasked with examining how the state can help students recover.
The new Student Recovery Advisory Council, comprised of 29 members with a variety of educational, medical and labor backgrounds, will make recommendations on how to help students recover. Those recommendations will include addressing students’ academic, physical and mental well-being.