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To support schools that wish to incorporate SARS-COV-2 testing into their plans to resume in-person learning, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is offering a voluntary program to provide rapid antigen testing and/or pooled…
On Friday, August 13, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services released updated guidance strongly recommending that schools require masking for all students and staff regardless of vaccination status. This guidance has been updated to…
On July 27, the CDC released updated guidance for fully vaccinated people to "maximize protection from the Delta variant and prevent possibly spreading it to others" by "[wearing] a mask indoors in public if you are in an area of substantial or high…
As Principals are planning for student ID cards for the upcoming 2021-22 school year, be aware that, beginning this school year, schools need to ensure that student IDs have a suicide prevention hotline number printed on them. Specifically,…
The US Department of Education (USDoE) has joined the growing list of organizations that has released guidance on school reopening for this fall. It keys in on three priorities: (1) the mental health and safety of students, staff, and educators, 2)…
This week, Governor Whitmer signed HB 4411, the School Aid Fund budget for the 2021-22 school year, with only a pair of line-item vetoes. After the House and Governor, but not the Senate, came to agreement on the K-12 budget in mid-June, speculation…
On Wednesday, June 30, the Michigan Senate passed what appears to be the final version of the 2021-22 School Aid Fund budget (HB 4411). Just now, the House voted to concur in the Senate-passed bill, sending it to Governor Whitmer’s desk for…
The House has passed HB 4037, 4038, & 4538, a trio of bills that would make it optional for Michigan schools to administer the WorkKeys assessment. If the state realizes any savings from not administering the roughly $4 million per year test to…
On Thursday night, the Michigan House passed two important budget items: a 2021-22 School Aid Fund budget (HB 4411) and a budget supplemental (HB 4421) to allocate all $4.3 billion in non-discretionary federal pandemic response funding specific to…
On Tuesday, the Senate passed an amended version of HB 4421, a supplemental allocate ALL remaining non-discretionary federal pandemic response funding specific to schools (that's about $4.2 billion distributed to public schools on the Title 1a…
The state's COVID-19 order limiting the size of indoor gatherings at non-residential establishments to 50 percent of capacity and requiring the unvaccinated to wear a face mask when indoors will end at 12:01 am on June 22, nine days earlier than…
On Tuesday, the Senate Education Committee took up a variety of unrelated bills: SB 410-411 would change how special education millage funding flows when students transfer to a school in a different ISD (the bills saw a raft of opposition from…