Decades of research tells us that Michigan’s economic future and cultural vitality depends on the quality of our educational system, from pre-K through college, and recent achievement results from around the country provide hope and many lessons for Michigan to take to heart.
Statewide educational improvement is possible – and within our grasp. By making a sustained, comprehensive commitment and investment in the levers we know work, Michigan can get back on track.
StudentsFirst Michigan support for Stronger Charter School Accountability in Michigan
LANSING, Mich. -- StudentsFirst Michigan State Director Lindsay Huddleston has issued the following statement regarding The Education Trust-Midwest’s new repor…
Accountability for All 2015
National Association of Charter School Authorizers | The Skillman Foundation | Michigan PTA | Grand Rapids Public Schools | Excellent Schools Detroit …
Authorizer Scorecard Technical Appendix
DataThe Education Trust Midwest’s (ETM) authorizer scorecard uses data from the following publically available sources: Fall 2010 through Fall 2014 Michigan Ce…
Group: Let state punish poor charter school authorizers
By David Jesse, Detroit Free PressThe state should formally sanction charter school authorizers that consistently do business with low-performing operators an…
New report gives mixed grades to Michigan charter school authorizers
By Kirk Pinho - Crain's Detroit BusinessA new report from a local nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization for the first time grades the performa…
Support from the Michigan PTA
Accountability for All, a report released today by The Education Trust - Midwest (ETM) on charter school authorizer accountability in Michigan, provides a bala…
Support from Excellent Schools Detroit (ESD)
DETROIT, MICH (February 19, 2015) – Today, the Education Trust-Midwest released a report and scorecard on Michigan charter school authorizer performance. While…
Lots of A’s – plus D’s and F’s – on a report card for charter authorizers
TRACY SAMILTON - Michigan Radio News When Michigan's charter school experiment began 21 years ago, the hope was charters would be better than traditional …
‘A’ Authorizer Grand Rapids Public Schools Statement in Support of ‘Accountability for All’
The Education Trust-Midwest report is spot on and largely aligned with our Board’s legislative platform. Michigan charter school laws should be reformed to inc…
Democrats for Education Reform support for ‘Accountability for All’
Michigan DFERs,The Education Trust-Midwest released a report today on charter authorizer accountability. “Accountability for All: The Need for Real Charter Sch…
Study says many Michigan charter authorizers succeeding but poor performers have more schools
By Kyle Feldscher | [email protected] - MLiveLANSING -- While most of the charter school authorizers studied by a Michigan-based education group received…
Why Grand Rapids Public Schools earned an ‘A’ from education advocacy group
By Monica Scott | [email protected] - Grand Rapids Press / MLiveGRAND RAPIDS, MI - Grand Rapids Public Schools is among six charter school authorizers that ear…
Investing in Our Future
On Wednesday, Governor Snyder announced a proposal to improve early literacy in Michigan through targeted investments in early identification of struggling rea…
2014 Academic State Champs: Good school. Struggling school. All in the same district.
By Mike Wilkinson, Bridge Magazine & Monica Scott, MLiveGrand Rapids Public Schools officials are rightly proud of the success of the district’s Coit Creat…
MI House to Focus on Solutions
Michigan House to focus on solutionsOn Thursday, the Michigan House of Representatives released their priorities for this session. In education, their focus wi…
From Lansing to Washington, No One is Too Cool for School
MI Senate to Focus on EducationSenate Republicans outlined their 2015 priorities last week and made it clear that improving Michigan schools will be a major fo…