Posted by: Posted On:9 Sep 2021
The Michigan Department of Education last week released the statewide results of last school year’s student assessments and they were disastrous. They identified disastrous lost learning and bureaucratic failures in schools across the state. The Department and public school bureaucracy
Posted by: Posted On:31 Aug 2021
Failed Bureaucracy: Disastrous M-STEP Results Show Students Left in the Cold; Parents Left with Desperate Questions Parents, Students Don’t See Results from Extra $6.1 Billion in School COVID Relief Spending LANSING – Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) Executive Director Beth
Posted by: Posted On:24 Aug 2021
Are new statewide school mandates coming? Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s administration isn’t ruling them out, and in at least one high profile case, her top health officials are pressuring the Governor to arbitrarily tell every Michigan student how he or she
Posted by: Posted On:10 Aug 2021
The debate about masking school children, even kindergarteners, is heating up again. No, the science hasn’t changed. Young children remain the least susceptible to contracting COVID-19 and to spreading it, and the few who do get it tend to suffer
Posted by: Posted On:27 Jul 2021
GLEP: CDC Not Driven By Science Or Data By Asking for Masks On All School-aged Children LANSING – Great Lakes Education Project Executive Director Beth DeShone provided the following statement today in response to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Posted by: Posted On:27 Jul 2021
Democrats in the Michigan House of Representatives this week sunk to a new and surprising low. They voted en masse to slash education funding from students in kindergarten and elementary school who are struggling to read after a year of
Posted by: Posted On:21 Jul 2021
House Democrats Slash $155 Million in Education Funding for Struggling Readers – That They Previously Enacted You Read That Right: House Democrats Flip Flop, Vote to Protect Veto of Bipartisan Reading Scholarships They Approved Themselves LANSING – Great Lakes Education
Posted by: Posted On:14 Jul 2021
Whitmer Slashes $155 Million in Education Funding for Struggling Readers Governor Targets Elementary School Kids Who Need Help the Most by Cutting Bipartisan Reading Scholarship Program LANSING – Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) Executive Director Beth DeShone provided the following
Posted by: Posted On:12 Jul 2021
Students are on summer vacation, but Governor Gretchen Whitmer and bureaucrats are already figuring out ways to make heading back to school this fall more difficult. The Governor and her health department recently published new, formal recommendations that school districts
Posted by: Posted On:30 Jun 2021
Groundbreaking: Senate Votes to Put Kids First, Increasing School Funding to Eliminate the Public School Per-Pupil Funding Gap Senate Budget Treats Students Equitably in Foundation Allowance, No Matter Where They Go to School, Funds Reading Scholarships LANSING –The Great Lakes