To reform Michigan's public education system, a new report finds the state should first better structure its governance over policy.

The move follows the layoffs of half of the department's 4,133-member staff on March 11. Education observers in Michigan say preschoolers in Head Start, summer schoolers trying to make up pandemic ...

CBS News Detroit Digital Brief for July 14, 2023 05:16 (CBS DETROIT) - The state of Michigan announced this week a new education department that will focus on providing access to affordable child ...

The youths’ stories were part of a joint presentation with two state agencies — the Department of Education, which oversees Michigan’s more than 800 school districts and is directed by the ...

Michigan’s State Board of Education is asking Attorney General Dana Nessel to weigh in on whether a newly created education department is constitutional. Last month, Governor Gretchen Whitmer ...

SOUTH BEND, IN (WSBT) — Operation Education spoke with state lawmakers in Indiana and Michigan about what changes to the U.S. Department of Education could mean for local schools and students. A ...

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's governor established a new education department focused on long-term student outcomes, developing talent and growing the economy. Through an executive order Tuesday ...

When Michigan native and Republican megadonor Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Secretary of Education in a narrow Senate vote in 2017, she sparked controversy and widespread criticism, including pushback ...

Michigan education officials said more than 20 school districts could lose nearly $42 million in federal funding after receiving a letter from the U.S. Department of Education stating it was ...

The proposed dissolution of the U.S. Department of Education is likely to touch every level of public education in Michigan, education experts say, from preschoolers to high schoolers to college ...