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Detroit charter students make gains on M-STEP, but lag behind pre-pandemic results
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy.Charter schools where Detroit children account for at least half the student body showed progress on Michigan’s standardized tests, though their results trail statewide numbers and are below pre-pandemic figures.In English language arts, 20.6% of students tested proficient or better on the 2024 Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, or M-STEP. That result was more than 2 percentage points higher than the 2021-22 school year, but nearly 4 percentage points lower than the 2018-19 school year.Statewide, 44.5% were proficient or...
Increasing demand prompts Ypsilanti schools to expand Spanish immersion program
YPSILANTI, MI - Amid a shortage of language teachers throughout the state, Ypsilanti Community Schools is expanding its dual language Spanish immersion program. Since welcoming its first dual language kindergarten class to the district in 2021, a grade has been added each year. That original kindergarten class is now in third grade.
Wayne State University scores unusual $200K grant to improve mine worker safety
Detroit is much better known for Motown music than mountain mining. But that didn't stop the U.S. Department of Labor last week from granting more than $200,000 to a Wayne State University professor's effort to improve mine worker safety from the threat of potentially deadly dust exposure. The state of Michigan still has some...
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