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On Tuesday, the House Education Committee took testimony on SB 161-62, and pair of bills that would simplify reciprocity for teachers and school counselors from other states seeking to teach in Michigan … the committee did not vote on the bills but…
On Tuesday, the Senate Appropriations Committee took the next step in the budget process when they held a marathon meeting to move many of their proposed budget bills (including the K-12 budget) to the Senate Floor, a move that would seem to back up…
The Senate Education Committee kicked off the week on Tuesday when they reported out HB 4166, legislation that will repeal the state's duplicative A-F school accountability system…the vote was party line with Republicans opposing and offering an…
The House, Senate, and Governor have now all put forward their budget recommendations for the 2023-24 school year. All three budgets included decent sized foundation increases, additional investment into weighted funding categoricals (special ed, At…
No session in either the House or Senate on Tuesday (in recognition of Laylat al-Qadr) means that neither the House and Senate Education Committees nor the Senate PK-12 budget subcommittee (all of which normally meet on Tuesday) met this week…but…
The House and Senate K-12 budget subcommittees kicked off the week with a rare, but not unprecedented, Monday evening hearing outside of Lansing (at Mumford High School in Detroit) during which the subcommittee focused on Michigan's educator…
A quartet of bills (HB 4354-57) was introduced in the House this week that would eliminate several provisions in the Public Employee Relations Act (PERA) regarding prohibited subjects of bargaining. If the bills become law, it would mean that…
As the week began, it looked as though the Michigan Legislature might just slide quietly into their two week spring recess since three members of the House were supposed to be unable to come to Lansing (one due to surgery, one to COVID, and one to…
On Tuesday, the House Education Committee, took testimony (but did not vote) on HB 4166, legislation to repeal the state’s A-F school ranking system (which is duplicative of the School Index System required by federal law)...a vote is scheduled for…
Ever heard of the filibuster? It's a procedural tactic in the United States Senate that was initially popularized in the classic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. A filibuster is when one or more U.S. Senators speak continuously and refuse to yield…
The House Education Committee kicked off the week on Tuesday when they took testimony (but did not vote) on HB 4064, which would encourage MDE to develop a cursive writing curriculum that schools would then have the option to adopt, and HB 4157,…
If you are relatively new to the principalship, or even if you've been around a few years, you may not be familiar with or up to date on the work of the School Finance Research Collaborative (SFRC). This group of educators and business leaders has…