The last week of legislative session before the House and Senate took their two week spring recess saw action in both chambers. The Senate Education Committee voted out legislations on two different issues: SB 285 would make Kindergarten attendance…
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The House Committee on Education kicked off the week with a special Monday evening hearing at Sterling Heights High School focused on school safety and mental health, with stakeholders (including Chippewa Valley High School Principal and MASSP Board…
On Tuesday, the House Education Committee took testimony, but no vote on HB 5174, which would mandate that MDE work with Gift of Life Michigan to develop a one hour instructional unit that schools would then be required to deliver to all 9th graders…
On Tuesday, the House Education Committee took up, but did not vote on, HB 5025, legislation to repeal the Educational Instruction Access Act, which prohibits a local government body from restricting how the property of an educational institution…
While the house Education Committee didn't meet this week, the other three major education committees did, including the Senate Education Committee which met Tuesday and voted out SB 567-68, a pair of bills that would create a framework and…
On Tuesday, the House Education Committee kicked off the day by unanimously passing SB 518, legislation that would extend the sunset on a law that allows an alternative certification pathway for special education teachers … while the legislation is…
The House Education Committee kicked off the week on Tuesday when they met briefly to take testimony (but no vote) on SB 518, legislation that would extend the sunset on a law that allows an alternative certification pathway for special education…
Governor Whitmer's Executive Budget Proposal for the 2024-25 fiscal year is out. The proposal includes moderate 2.5% ongoing increases for the major core line items schools rely on like the foundation allowance, At Risk, and special education…
At MASSP's AP Summit this past week, attendees got the advice that they try to align the renewals of their teacher and administrator certificates so that they can count the same education-related professional learning toward renewing both…
On Wednesday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer delivered her sixth State of the State address. While education did feature prominently in her remarks, the focus was on expanding the scope of public education beyond K-12 to include preschool and community…
The Michigan Legislature was back in session this week and more-or-less back to regular session, though since the Michigan House is split 54-54 between Democrats and Republicans with 55 votes needed to pass any bills through the chamber, the going…
The repeated theme in this year's Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference (CREC) is that the economy seems to be (on the whole) stabilizing in the wake of the pandemic. Current year revenue isn't declining as fast as expected and next year's revenue…