K-12 education

Governor Gretchen Whitmer is spending part of this week visiting Michigan K-12 schools as the new school year begins.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer traveled to Suttons Bay in northern Michigan Thursday to sign the state's new pre-K through 12th grade education budget.

The Michigan House voted Tuesday to stop giving out letter grades like “A” or “F” to schools.

Michigan students would no longer have to repeat the third grade if they're not reading at grade level under a bill that passed the House Tuesday.

State Representative Luke Meerman sent a letter to Governor Gretchen Whitmer Friday. In it, he and members of the House and Senate School Aid and PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittees ask Governor Whitmer to provide equal per-pupil public school funding.

After months of meeting, the Michigan House School Safety Task Force’s final report is out. The 12-page document breaks up its focus areas to prevention, mitigation and response measures.

The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation will appeal a judge’s ruling that teacher lesson plans, homework assignments and classroom materials are exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests.

The Lansing School District will permanently close two schools next fall semester. Reo and Kendon elementaries will merge with Attwood and North, respectively, in the 2023-2024 school year.

Michigan State University researchers say where students go to school may determine if they will be held back under the state’s Read by Grade Three law.

Holt is participating in the Universal Breakfast Program, a state initiative that allows students at qualifying schools to receive one free breakfast each day.