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Last fall, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed laws that will take effect in 2027 designed to change how children are taught to read in Michigan’s public schools. In this second of a two-part series, we explore how these changes are likely to look in classrooms, and what factors will decide their success there.
Emma Winowiecki
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Michigan Public
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Michigan’s January jobs report held a mixed bag as the state gained jobs but not enough to stave off an increase in the state’s monthly unemployment to 5.3%. That’s an increase of one-tenth of a percentage point from the December rate. -
The Michigan Senate passed its two-bill spending plan to close the books on the state’s last budget Thursday.One bill redirects money from the previous fiscal year to account for differences between planned and actual costs when it comes to Medicaid, veterans' homes, and other areas. The other refocuses $3.3 million in Federal Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Funds toward the state’s Community College Academic Catch-Up Program. -
Hundreds of union members, residents, and activists protested outside an EPA lab that tests vehicle emissions in Ann Arbor, to protest massive layoffs in the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies by DOGE, plans by the EPA to roll back environmental regulations, and threats by the Trump administration against long-standing union protection for federal employees. -
Colin Bird, the Consul General of Canada in Detroit, visited Eastern Michigan University to discuss the importance of free trade and advocate for more teamwork between Canada and the U.S. to improve both economies. -
This is the first time cougar cubs have been verified since the big cats were hunted out of existence in Michigan in the early 1900s. -
The Michigan Supreme Court has selected a new chief justice with the upcoming departure of the current incumbent. The justices have chosen Megan Cavanagh to succeed Elizabeth Clement, who announced her intention to retire from the court by the end of April. -
A conversation about how campus protests should be handled, a Sudanese drink made in Michigan and an Anishinaabe inventor promoting STEM education. -
Trump recently nominated two Michigan mayors to fill appointments of U.S. ambassadors to foreign nations. -
Michigan Senate Democrats announced a plan Wednesday they say will support parents of young children. The proposal, dubbed “Building Blocks,” falls into three parts. -
Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that she will travel to Washington D.C. soon to lobby federal officials against proposed big cuts to the U.S. Department of Education and new tariffs against Canada and other trading partners. -
United Methodist leaders, parishioners, car crash survivors, and advocates met with state legislators and rallied on the steps of the state Capitol building on Wednesday to urge restoration of long-term care benefits in Michigan's auto no-fault law. -
Michigan Public’s Data reporter explains Michigan's immigration, detention, and deportation data.
Michigan Public introduces a new podcast about Michigan's culinary talent, and the stories behind the food.
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A look at MSU's men's basketball Big Ten Championship run, a family collaborates with a Michigan filmmaker to tell the story of their lives, and a foundational figure in the Black Panther Party and her quest for internal revolution. -
Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was killed inside a pressurized oxygen chamber at a medical facility in suburban Detroit. Michigan’s attorney general says Thomas Cooper from Royal Oak, Michigan, was “incinerated” when the hyperbaric chamber exploded in January at the Oxford Center in Troy. The center's founder and three others were arrested Monday on charges including second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. Arraignments are scheduled Tuesday afternoon. A lawyer for one defendant told the AP he wants to remind everyone that "this was an accident, not an intentional act." -
President Donald Trump's threat on Tuesday to double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada led the provincial government of Ontario to suspend its planned surcharges on electricity sold to the United States.As a result, the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the U.S. president pulled back on his doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs, even as the federal government still plans to place a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports starting Wednesday. -
Ann Arbor Judge J. Cedric Simpson presided over two full days of preliminary exams for seven people charged with resisting arrest and trespassing at a May 21 police raid on an encampment created to call on the university to divest from companies with ties to Israel.
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