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Reginald Hardwick is digital news director for WKAR Public Media, leading the creation of news reporting and commentary across all station platforms, including online, radio and television.

Credit Reginald Hardwick / WKAR-MSU The Legislature is back in Lansing this week with the primary goal of wrapping up the state budget. That includes a spending plan for schools. Lawmakers are working with an additional $4.4 billion dollars in federal COVID-19 recovery funds. This money can help schools recruit teachers, get classrooms ready, and deal with learning loss over the 16-month-long COVID crisis, but only if the Legislature votes to appropriate the money,” says Donald Wotruba, the executive director of the Michigan Association of School Boards. “The sooner the Legislature gets i...

Reginald Hardwick was put up for adoption at birth and has always wondered about his birth parents, yet he wasn’t obsessed with the idea of finding them either. He figured if it happened, then it happened. At 48 years old, it’s happening.

Credit Reginald Hardwick / WKAR-MSU Budget negotiations between Governor Gretchen Whitmer and legislative leaders will restart this week with new numbers to work with. A board made up of the state treasurer and House and Senate fiscal experts determined Friday that Michigan’s budget picture is much better than expected – with $12 billion windfall.  Some of that is due to the economic recovery. Some of it is federal COVID-19 assistance. “And the thing that we need to do now, which is the real hard work, is tie those resources to those problems and figure out the most-effective way to so...