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LANSING — The number of future educators in Michigan is on the rise once again after a severe dip in enrollment in teaching programs. The Michigan Departme

WASHINGTON — Raised on welfare by his grandmother, Joseph Sais relied so much on food stamps as a college student that he thought about quitting school when h

Local middle and high schools benefit Feb 24, 2021 Marquette Youth Advisory Committees members are shown after volunteering along a portion of the Iron Ore Heritage Trail the group adopted to maintain. YAC has awarded more grants to benefit local middle and high schools. (Photo courtesy of the Community Foundation of Marquette County) MARQUETTE — The Youth Advisory Committees of the Community Foundation of Marquette County has announced the distribution of 18 grants to nonprofits to support youth programming. There are three YAC groups in the county, including the Marquette, Negaunee and Is...

JOHN LEICESTER Dr. Clair Vandersteen, right, wafts a tube of odors under the nose of a patient, Gabriella Forgione, during tests in a hospital in Nice, southern France, on Feb. 8 to help determine why she has been unable to smell or taste since she contracted COVID-19 in November. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, doctors and researchers are still striving to better understand and treat the accompanying epidemic of COVID-19-related anosmia — loss of smell — draining much of the joy of life from an increasing number of sensorially frustrated longer-term sufferers like Forgione. (AP pho...

COLLIN BINKLEY The Education Department said Monday that it will not allow states to forgo federally required standardized testing in schools this year but will give them flexibility to delay testing or hold it online during the pandemic. Aiming for a middle ground in a polarized debate, the Biden administration said states must continue with annual testing but can apply to be exempted from certain accountability measures tied to the results. States also will be allowed to move tests to the summer or fall, or they can offer shortened tests or online assessments. In a letter to state educatio...