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Taken from a lengthy article about here presentation:EDUCATION: She also asked the business community to get behind her 21st Century Schools Fund, which uses former payments to non-Durant schools to cover grants to design or build smaller high schools to replace current schools that are struggling."Replace those large impersonal high schools that fail with small personal high schools that work," she said, adding that the six middle colleges around the state are examples of what the program would create.And she said the program is even more attractive because, as proposed, it would no

Public interviews are being staged this week to find a new president for the embattled Eastern Michigan University. Gov. Jennifer GRANHOLM is tossing her support behind state Superintendent Mike FLANAGAN.
Flanagan, who does not have a doctorate or any higher education experience, made the final four and was interviewed for the vacancy this week.
The Governor, through her media secretary, made her choice very clear to the eight members of the EMU board, seven of whom she has appointed.

It looks like Rep. Joel SHELTROWN (D-West Branch) would need to get enough votes to override a veto if he hopes to see his bill, HB 5943, get enacted.

HB 5943 would create a dual diploma system for "students who don't fit the mold for going on to college".

"We're not in support of lowering standards," Granholm Press Secretary Liz BOYD told MIRS today. "We fought for more a rigorous curriculum and our support for that continues."

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If Gov. Jennifer GRANHOLM had her way, about the only thing drivers under 18 could do in their cars is drive them.
The Governor, a mother or two teenage girls, said she not only supports legislation that restricts the number of passengers a teen can have in the car with them, but wants to ban their ability to use cell phones while driving.

'OVERWHELMING' RESPONSE TO FILM PACKAGE
Film and television producers have already sent in 80 scripts for review for production in Michigan, and Jan Lockwood, director of the Michigan Film Office, said Tuesday that her office is being overwhelmed with calls from executives in Los Angeles, New York, London and Canada.
The activity actually started just before Governor Jennifer Granholm signed the film package on Monday but Ms. Lockwood said it is more than just getting scripts and taking phone calls.

Speaking before the 13th Annual Governor's Education Summit — 21st Century Learning: A Foundation for a Prosperous Michigan, Gov. Jennifer GRANHOLM pressed educators to help push her education agenda.

"If we don't make these changes, we'll look back and say 'what were we doing with these leadership positions," Granholm told the audience. "You're all in leadership positions or you wouldn't be here."

During her remarks, the governor pushed the education agenda she'd outlined in her 2008 State of the State Address and in her budget message. Key components are:

Wednesday morning, those who were invited by the Governor to advise her on strategies to decrease student dropouts met. We met in the Governor’s conference room adjacent to her office. We were in our places for the 8:30 a.m. meeting, and she came in promptly and welcomed each of us by name and with a handshake.