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Michigan university president’s home painted with anti-Israel messages
A suburban Detroit house owned by the University of Michigan president and the sidewalk were spray-painted Monday with the words “intifada” and “coward” on the first anniversary of the attack on Israel by Hamas.
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...
Michigan college basketball teams unite to fight food insecurity
(CBS DETROIT) — The University of Michigan and Oakland University basketball teams came together Saturday at Forgotten Harvest in Oak Park to pack more apples for the food insecure."These apples that these students are packing today will go out to feed the community, there's over 550 thousand people in Metro Detroit that are food insecure," said Christopher Ivey, chief marketing officer for Forgotten Harvest. 313 Presents helped bring these two basketball programs together."We wanted to create a relevant reason for these two teams to clash and forgotten harvest is an amazing force really helps people with food insecurity," said Howard Handler,...
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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