School Policies On Student Face Mask Mandates Trigger Raucous Board Meetings
A growing movement among parents to pull children from districts over mask mandates
Media Heavy Breathing Aside, 100% Of Very Few Juvenile COVID Cases Is Still Very Few
Beware reports with percents only and no actual numbers
Kent County Health Department Order Could Devastate Organized Sports
10-day quarantine for any player contact with COVID-positive teammate
Kent County Imposes Virtual Mask Ultimatum On Schoolchildren
Mask-up, or parents will likely have children at home for 10-day quarantines
Report: U-M’s 163 Diversity Officers The Most Among Big US Universities
2.3 for every history instructor; ‘more focused on promoting narrow and divisive political agendas’
Granholm Brings Michigan’s Failed Green Energy Subsidies To Washington
Former governor, now U.S. energy secretary, visits state promoting same plan as if it worked
U-M Law Prof: Public Schools Must Reopen Or Won’t Get Money Under Law Signed In July
State budget requires ‘Each district shall provide at least 1,098 hours and 180 days of instruction’
Scary-Sounding Oakland COVID News Story Missing Key Facts/Context
In county of 1.26 million, there are 67 COVID admissions in its biggest hospitals
Michigan Households Paid Nation’s 10th-Highest Electricity Cost In May 2021
Big utilities CMS Energy and DTE took profits of $752 million and $1.37 billion in 2020
School Sports Reopening Group’s Fall Campaign: Pull Kids From Schools With COVID Mandates
Organizers: ‘There are many other options out there and together we can make it work!’
Agencies Use Questionable Legal Reviews To Inflate Charges For Open Record Law Requests
Almost half of one $12,000 charge went to attorneys
Public Health Officials Oppose Placing Limits On Their Power
Restraints will bring ‘suffering and death’
More Michigan Teachers Per Student Now Than 10 Years Ago
A modest 2% decline in teacher numbers swamped by 8.6% plunge in enrollment
State’s Initial Epidemic Responses Guided By ‘Worst Case But Possible’ Scenario
The reality fell short
Legionnaires’ Disease Spike Cited To Justify Extended Lockdowns, But They May Have Triggered It
Argument related to campaign to ban unlimited government by emergency order
88% Of Detroit Third Graders Below Proficient In Reading; New Law Held None Back
Law that bars moving along children who can’t read filled with exceptions
Politicians Believed ‘Grim’ COVID Messaging Would Be The Most Effective
Telling public you won't die 'if you're lucky' a long way from 'minimization of public panic and fear'
Benton Harbor Schools Held Back No Third Graders In 2020-21 School Year
District cited in liberal nonprofit’s panic about law to restrict promoting children who can’t read to next grade
Another Granholm Green Energy Winner That Was A Bust
$50 million taxpayer dollars down the tubes
Population Fell In Post-Bankruptcy Detroit, City Revenue Rose
The school district saw a modest enrollment increase after its 2016 bailout
Liberal Nonprofit News Site Paints Unfair Picture Of Reading Retention Law
ProPublica fails to mention specific exemptions to being held back
Earlier Poll Anticipated Vaccine Lottery's Underwhelming Results
Downward trajectory of weekly vaccinations not dented by state's prize offers
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