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Michigan Schools AED Drill Week is November 10 through 14, 2008

We Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals are joining the Kimberly Anne Gillary Foundation, the Michigan Chapter of the American Heart Association (AHA) and various Michigan School Associations to help promote Michigan Schools CPR/AED Drill Weeks.  Schools who participated in last year‚Äôs event overwhelmingly found the drills to be educational and worthwhile exercises.

Court: Mich. schools forced to bear reporting costs
BY DAWSON BELL • FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU • JULY 7, 2008
LANSING – Michigan state government has been shortchanging local school districts millions of dollars a year by failing to reimburse the cost of enhanced reporting requirements under education reforms enacted in the last decade, the state Court of Appeals ruled today.

Change system for sake of students
BY MIKE FLANAGAN • June 29, 2008
Narrow thinkers wanting to water down the new high school graduation requirements have wrongly bleated that the new Michigan Merit Curriculum is "cookie cutter," because it expects that all kids will learn the same rigorous academic content.
Well, it is not the curriculum that is cookie cutter; it's the current educational system, which wants all kids to fit in that box we call a classroom, when some just won't. We don't need to change the new requirements. We need to change the system.

• Small-Schools Push Tied to Graduation Rates (New Spin on Governor's Proposal)
• Michigan's Tougher Graduation Standards Causing Headaches
• Gutting New Curriculum Would Doom Our Children

More than 30 Michigan high schools are among 1,300 nationwide that have been listed in Newsweek’s annual listing of the best high schools in the nation. Click to view the article.

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Michigan education officials will be scouring the state over the next few months to find new plans for reducing dropout rates in the state.
The Michigan Education Association is sponsoring 10 hearings between May and October to find suggestions on keeping children in school until they graduate.
"Too many students are leaving school before graduating," said MEA President Iris Salters. "We need to work together to understand the scope of the problem and to find sustainable solutions."

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.

State Test Scores Show Increases
in Math for Third Straight Year
April 8, 2008
LANSING – For the third straight year, math scores have risen on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) tests for the state’s elementary and middle school students, the Michigan Department of Education reported today.
Mathematics scores improved at every grade tested (3rd through 8th) except fifth grade, which saw only a slight decline. Writing scores improved at the third, fifth, seventh, and eighth grade levels. Eighth grade science and reading scores also improved.

Efforts Underway To Address Crisis in Detroit & Elsewhere
LANSING, MI – A national report released today putting Detroit’s high school graduation rate at the bottom of the nation’s 50 largest cities should be the final wake-up call Michigan needs to address this educational and workforce crisis once and for all.
The report, issued by America’s Promise Alliance, showed a 24.9 percent graduation rate in 2003-04 for the Detroit City School District. The next lowest was Indianapolis Public Schools at 30.5 percent.