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Watchdog group demands termination of Oakland University researcher for mishandling dangerous toxin

The botched project caused the deaths of mice and exposed staff to a genotoxin, which can damage DNA

By Steve Neavling
Mar 20, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Education, Oakland University, Stop Animal Exploitation Now, animal research, education, Oakland County, Michael Budkie, genotoxin, research
Cannabis News

Federal ban on marijuana means Michigan cannabis company can’t sue state agency, judge rules

Court says Viridis Laboratories lacks legal standing because it deals in ‘illegal contraband’

By Steve Neavling
Aug 4, 2023

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, Viridis Laboratories, Marijuana, U.S. District Court, law, Michigan, Controlled Substances Act, Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency
Metro Detroit

Most Detroiters are unsatisfied and would like to move, survey found

The findings paint a gloomy picture of life in Michigan’s largest city

By Steve Neavling
Jun 6, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Survey, poll, Detroit, suburbs, quality of life, education, jobs, affordable housing, Gallup, Detroit Regional Chamber
Metro Detroit

Detroit charter schools offers $100,000 salaries to certified teachers

The Detroit Academy of Arts Sciences made the offer as schools struggle with teacher shortages

By Steve Neavling
May 25, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Education, Detroit Academy of Arts & Sciences, teachers, teacher salaries, education, Detroit
Michigan

Michigan school’s ban on ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirt leads to lawsuit

The phrase is a coded insult that means ‘Fuck Joe Biden’

By Steve Neavling
Apr 25, 2023

Tags: Michigan News, News, Joe Biden, Let's Go Brandon, school, education, Tri County Area Schools, Western Michigan, First Amendment, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Michigan

Michigan students plead with lawmakers to pass more gun control laws

‘I should not be here giving this speech,’ an MSU student said

By Steve Neavling
Mar 15, 2023

Tags: Michigan News, News, School, education, Michigan, gun control, Michigan Legislature, red flag law, guns
Metro Detroit

Mother sues Detroit charter school after teacher struck daughter with hockey stick

The 11-year-old girl was found alone in a hallway, covered in blood

By Steve Neavling
Feb 23, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, lawsuit, Wayne County Circuit Court, Charter school, education, Jon Marko
Metro Detroit

Romulus Community Schools reinstates superintendent who filed racial discrimination suit against the district

The school board fired Benjamin Edmondson after he filed suit

By Steve Neavling
Feb 22, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Romulus, Romulus Community schools, schools, education, Benjamin Edmondson, racial discrimination, whistleblower, lawsuit, U.S. District Court
Metro Detroit

Schoolcraft College is accused of retaliation, racial discrimination in federal lawsuit

The school was at risk of losing its accreditation due to its lack of diversity, suit states

By Steve Neavling
Nov 2, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Education, Schoolcraft College, Wayne County, lawsuit, racism, Livonia, education, racial discrimination
Michigan

Michigan educators urge action to reverse low student test scores

Data from the September release of standardized test scores showed some of the steepest learning declines for Michigan students in a half-century

By Mark Richardson, Michigan News Connection
Oct 27, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Education, Michigan, education, schools
The Incision

What the firing of a legendary yet difficult organic chemistry professor says of America’s ‘meritocracy’

How the rich and powerful game the meritocracy

By Abdul El-Sayed
Oct 21, 2022

Tags: The Incision, The Incision, college, education, chemistry, student debt crisis
Michigan

Multiple brawls at football games prompted two Flint-area schools to limit spectators

The safety measures were taken after brawls broke out among spectators at a game between the Flint Jaguars and Beecher Buccaneers

By Steve Neavling
Sep 22, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, News, Schools, education, Flint Community Schools, Football, student sports, Beecher High School, Flint High School
Michigan

How harassment and politicized issues help push Michigan teachers out of the classroom

Despite the state allocating more and more money into teacher retention and attraction, harassment, change of emotional climate in schools and politicization of K-12 school curricula has been driving teachers to leave the profession the last few years

By Allison R. Donahue, Michigan Advance
Sep 22, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Education, Michigan, education
Metro Detroit

Fundraiser launched after thieves steal truck packed with school supplies in Detroit

Hey Y’all Detroit relied on the truck to deliver nutritional food, hygiene kits, clothes, books, and school supplies

By Steve Neavling
Sep 6, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Books, education, school, Hey Y'all Detroit, Charmane Neal, fundraiser, GoFundme
Michigan

Michigan AG joins coalition fighting to protect school admissions policy that promotes diversity

The case could make it more difficult for Michigan schools to increase diversity

By Steve Neavling
May 31, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, News, Dana Nessel, Michigan, Attorney general, court, admissions policy, education, diversity, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Politics & Elections

‘Ghetto’ remark by Flint city councilwoman prompts ‘thorough’ investigation by school where she teaches

Flint City Council also considers suspending councilwoman for racist comment

By Steve Neavling
May 13, 2022

Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Racism, Eva Worthing, Flint, Flint City Council, Michigan Virtual Charter Academy, education
Michigan

Michigan Democrats pledge to mount a fierce fight to protect abortion rights

In response to a leak of draft on the SCOTUS decision on ‘Roe v. Wade,’ Gov. Whitmer says she’ll ‘keep fighting like hell’ to ensure abortion remains safe and accessible

By Steve Neavling
May 3, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Health Care, Abortion Rights, Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Michigan, law, Gov. Whitmer, Rashida Tlaib, Gary Peters, Debbie Stabenow
Politics & Elections

Michigan GOP Senator condemned for falsely claiming Dems want to ‘groom and sexualize kindergartners’

Sen. Theis sounded like a QAnon nut in her diatribe about Democrats

By Steve Neavling
Apr 19, 2022

Tags: Politics & Elections, Michigan, State Senate, Mallor McMorrow, Lana Theis, Republicans, hate, LGBTQ+, school, education, fundraising, politics, election, critical race theory
Michigan

Wayne County rescinds mask mandate for K-12 schools 'effective immediately'

By Steve Neavling
Feb 17, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, mask mandate, COVID-19. masks, Wayne County, schools, education, Dr. Avani Sheth, health
Metro Detroit

Grosse Pointe mom hurled N-word at school board meeting after son was kicked out for using the same racial slur

By Steve Neavling
Jan 26, 2022

Tags: Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Board of Education, school board, education, schools, Grosse Pointe South High School, n-word, racism