Author: Lori Higgins
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy.On a recent July day, a group of adults took to the streets of Detroit to experience what students encounter on their way to and from several schools.The excursion was the work of a new effort — a piece of a $180 million investment into multiple Northwest Detroit neighborhoods announced Friday by the philanthropic Kresge Foundation — to identify issues, such as unsafe vacant homes and property, that can make the trek to school a challenging one for children.“The vacant property,…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy.State Superintendent Michael Rice is urging Michigan school districts to continue offering free school meals at the start of the school year, despite uncertainty about whether the state will provide funding for the meals program.School officials don’t yet know how much funding they’ll receive for school meals because the Michigan Legislature missed its July 1 deadline for passing a budget for the current fiscal year. Part of the delay has been a divide among lawmakers about whether to continue paying for…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy.The Detroit district school board will be on the hunt for a new member to replace Angelique Peterson-Mayberry, who is resigning to take on a countywide role.Peterson-Mayberry, who was elected to the seven-member board in 2016 and began serving in 2017, was appointed this week to the Wayne County Commission. She’ll be completing the term of Irma Clark-Coleman, a longtime community leader, who died last month. Clark-Coleman had served on the board since 2010 and represented a portion of Detroit.The board…