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Over the holiday break, two announcements from MDHHS came out that Principals will want to be knowledgeable about. The first is that MDHHS and MDE put out a joint letter to the state's superintendents with recommendations (but not requirements) for…
On their single day of session this week (and the last day of legislative session until 2022) the Legislature managed to advance a slew of budget supplementals, including one bill (HB 4398) that includes a handful of different school-related…
This article is outdated since Governor Whitmer has signed HB 4294 since this article was originally published. See MASSP's update article for the most recent information.
Before leaving on their winter recess, the Michigan Legislature passed HB…
On Tuesday, over the objections of MASSP and MASA (read our joint written testimony here), the House Education committee reported out HB 4970: legislation that would require MDE to develop and require districts to provide biennial seizure awareness…
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) requires that, in order to receive funding through ARP ESSER III, every eligible district (which includes every traditional public school district in Michigan and most charter schools as well) must submit a pair of…
On Thursday, President Biden released several new national mitigation strategies in response to the new COVID-19 variants and in the context of entering the winter season. Included are some new or updated measures directly related to schools. On…
This week's shooting at Oxford High School resulted in four student deaths, many physical injuries, extensive school closures over safety concerns, an outpouring of support from across the state and nation (including this joint statement from the…
The Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has suspended activities related to implementation and enforcement of the ETS. This announcement comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a motion…
If you're like us, you're looking ahead at Thanksgiving and still wondering where October went. So when you tell us that you get so many memos and emails that you don't have time to read them all, we hear you. To help, we went back through the last…
Last week, MASSP reported that the House Education Committee took testimony on HB 5424, a bill to prohibit schools from paying association dues on behalf of their employees. At the time, we were told that a vote on the legislation could come as soon…
The rumor last week was that the House Education was going to meet on Tuesday, November 9 to vote out HB 5424 – a bill to prohibit schools from paying association dues on behalf of their employees – but in the end the committee never posted and the…
Across the state on Tuesday, voters signalled their strong support for public education as 62% of district bonding requests were successful and 82% of all overall millage requests were approved...but apparently the Michigan Legislature didn't get…