Sudden closure of Taylor International Academy sours some on charter schools
For most Michigan kids, the school year is over next week. But for the 300-some kids at Taylor International Academy in Southfield, it ended twelve days early, after the charter's management company...
View ArticleStateside for Monday, May 20th, 2013
For the first time in two weeks, teachers are back in the business of teaching and students are back in the business of learning in the Buena Vista school district near Saginaw.That's after the...
View Article77 percent of students return to troubled Buena Vista school district
The Buena Vista School District reopened on Monday after closing for two weeks due to a financial crisis. Of the 400 students that attended the school district before the closure, 77.5 percent have...
View ArticleWhy Ann Arbor may lay off teachers for the first time ever
In case you've been living under a rock the last couple of months, many Michigan schools are in financial crisis.It's not just separate outbreaks. It's an epidemic. Buena Vista had to shut down for two...
View ArticleBuena Vista fails to pay teachers, after all the controversy
It was a payless payday after all, for teachers in the Buena Vista School District on Friday.After a two-week shutdown of the district, teachers returned to the job on Monday.State officials had said...
View ArticleSchools that can’t follow deficit elimination plans could be dissolved under...
State lawmakers are working on legislation they hope will prevent another crisis like the one in the Buena Vista school district. Students there sat at home while school was closed for two weeks last...
View ArticleMore Michigan schools running deficits, record 55 with deficits
To add to the woes of public education in Michigan, six new school districts are running deficits.Forty-nine was the record, now make it 55 school districts – from the Traverse Bay Area to Wayne County...
View ArticleIn this morning's news: Governor pushes Medicaid, teachers rally in capitol,...
Governor cuts trip shortGovernor Rick Snyder will return early from his trip to Israel today in order to lobby for Medicaid expansion. Snyder will encourage fellow Republicans to pass the legislation....
View ArticleIn this morning's news: Medicaid vote, school budgets, bridge safety
Medicaid vote delayedGovernor Rick Snyder called out Republican state Senators for taking their summer recess before voting on Medicaid expansion. He is requesting that lawmakers return to vote on the...
View ArticleBuena Vista, Inkster schools could be dissolved under bills headed to governor
The Michigan House has given final approval to bills that will allow the state to dissolve small, struggling school districts.The legislation now goes to Governor Rick Snyder.The first two districts...
View ArticleWhy townships in Michigan were subject to the Voting Rights Act
As Rick Pluta reported earlier, two Michigan townships could be affected by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Voting Rights Act announced today.The Voting Rights Act requires that the federal...
View ArticleIn this morning's news: Voting rights decision, Orr denies medical leave,...
Michigan doesn't need to clear new election laws with the federal government"The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a key part of a voting rights law means the state of Michigan will no longer...
View ArticleBuena Vista schools update: Layoffs and how the Voting Rights Act impacts...
Last night, Buena Vista School District held meetings to discuss two important issues.Overall, while the board made decisions for the 2013-2014 school year assuming the school district would open this...
View ArticleIn this morning's news: School district consolidation, wolf hunt, Detroit...
Governor Rick Snyder has signed a law which would allow the state to consolidate small, financially struggling school districts with neighboring districts. Inskter in metro Detroit and Buena Vista in...
View ArticleThis week in Michigan politics: Medicaid expansion, dissolving school...
This week in Michigan politics, Jack Lessenberry and Emily Fox discuss Governor Snyder and Randy Richardville's final efforts to expand Medicaid, a bill recently signed to dissolve financially...
View ArticleStruggling school districts can be dissolved under new law
Small school districts with big money troubles could be broken up by the state under a new law signed by Governor Rick Snyder on Tuesday.Saginaw County’s Buena Vista and metro Detroit’s Inkster could...
View ArticleMichigan's State Superintendent wants to move toward county-wide school...
One hundred years ago, the state of Michigan had more than 7,000 local school districts.There are slightly more than 800 school districts today, and many of them are struggling with their finances.
View ArticleBuena Vista and Inkster schools have until Monday to avoid closure
The financially troubled Michigan school districts of Inkster and Buena Vista have until 5 p.m. Monday, July 22 to prove they have the money to run their school districts and that they have plans to...
View ArticleIn this morning's news: Detroit bankruptcy, Michigan tuition policy, school...
Detroit files for bankruptcyGovernor Rick Snyder has approved Detroit’s bankruptcy filing. It is now the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. History. Michigan Public Radio’s Rick Pluta reports...
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Buena Vista, Inkster school districts to be dissolved
The Buena Vista and Inkster Public School districts will be dissolved. Both districts missed a 5pm deadline today to prove they had enough money to keep doors open next school year.Richard Syrek is...
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