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On Tuesday, the House Education Committee met to take up two bills: HB 5097 would nominally prohibit schools from educating students about race and gender stereotypes but is really an attempt to ban schools from teaching Critical Race Theory without…
The Michigan Legislature wrapped up the state's general fund and higher education budgets this week and while these budgets typically don't have much impact on K-12 education the ongoing political debate over mask mandates bled over into the…
This week, the Michigan Legislature wrapped up the state's general fund and higher education budgets, which includes the funding for all of the individual state departments. These budgets typically don't have much impact on K-12 education, but the…
Each week, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) puts out a Data and Modeling Update that reviews the latest information on testing, disease trends, outbreaks, hospitalizations, deaths and the virus trajectory in Michigan.…
On Tuesday, on a 4-1 straight party-line vote, the Senate Education and Career Readiness Committee reported out SB 600-603, legislation that would prohibit K-12 schools and local health departments from requiring a vaccine unless that vaccine has…
For the upcoming year, school leaders across the state are trying to plan ahead for how they will handle remote learning in the event of a health-related closure. This includes planning for how to count students and take attendance during a remote…
As you are planning for how to manage the new state mandate to provide students with an opportunity to take the PSAT or SAT this fall, MASSP has received some clarifications from the College Board with regard to testing dates (among other things)…
This morning, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) released updated guidance related to quarantine, isolation, and COVID-19 in schools. Principals will want to note that the guidance released today makes distinctions between…
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, MASSP reported that schools had to submit their goals to MDE no later than September 15, 2021. We have since been informed by MDE that “The goals do not [need to be] submitted to the department. The…
Have you and your fellow building administrators been involved in developing your district's spending plans for federal ARP/ESSER III dollars? Every district in the state that received money in the third round of federal stimulus funding (which…
This week, MDE released statewide results from the spring 2021 M-STEP, PSAT, and SAT along with data from benchmark assessments administered during the 2020-21 school year. After a year and a half of disrupted learning due to the global pandemic,…
We've known since the Michigan Legislature passed the School Aid Fund budget back in June that there was a new $240 million line item to provide funding for districts with the greatest need to hire school psychologists, social workers, counselors,…