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U.S. Department of Education Announces Award To Michigan to Continue Efforts to Turn Around Lowest-Performing Schools
ON MARCH 13, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that 10 states would receive more than $95 million to continue efforts to turn around their persistently lowest-achieving schools through awards from the Department’s School…
Survey: Colleges Want More Guidance On How To Best Handle Cases Of Student Sexual Misconduct
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES across the nation would welcome additional support and assistance in creating appropriate sanctions or interventions with students who are found responsible for sexual misconduct.
That was one of the main…
UMHS CEO Dr. Ora Pescovitz To Step Down After Five Years
In January, The Indy revealed that UMHS had signed a 5-Year $45M deal with Life Technologies (LIFE), that Dr. Pescovitz held stock in LIFE and served on LIFE’s Board.
ON MARCH 17 Dr. Ora Pescovitz sent an email to her system’s faculty…
EDITORIAL: Ann Arbor Public Schools Robbing Peter To Pay Paul With Schools Of Choice Expansion
DR. JEANICE SWIFT hopes to attract students from districts throughout Washtenaw County in the 2014-2015 academic year. AAPS has designated 100 seats in kindergarten, 100 seats in first grade, 25 seats in grades 3, 4, 5, 50 seats in grades…
Former AnnArbor.com Reporter Says Editors Killed His Brendan Gibbons Story in 2009
IN ANN ARBOR IT is said that some bleed maize and blue. Between its 2009 launch and its 2013 end, journalistic “experiment” AnnArbor.com bled talent. Reporters frustrated by low pay and, several say, difficulty getting hard-hitting stories…
EDITORIAL: Rape Culture In American Universities
COLLEGE CAMPUSES ARE dangerous places for American women. According to figures from a U.S. Department of Justice study, 25 percent of college women will be victims of rape or attempted rape before they graduate within a four-year college…
Bill Sponsor Says Year-Round Schools Will Prove Popular
by Ron French
A BILL TO encourage struggling Michigan schools to convert to a year-round schedule was approved by the House Appropriations Committee last week, and now moves to the full House for consideration. The proposal, sponsored by…
Op-Ed: The Four Most Profound Ways Privatization Perverts Education
by Paul Buchheit
PROFIT-SEEKING IN the banking and health care industries has victimized Americans. Now it’s beginning to happen in education, with our children as the products. There are good reasons - powerful reasons - to stop the…
AAPS Administrator Contracts—Annual Bonuses, Golden-Handcuff Payments & 43 Paid Vacation Days
THE ANN ARBOR Independent used a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get copies of the employment contracts between the AAPS Board of Education and the school district’s top-level administrators, including Superintendent Dr.…
Op-Ed: The Education Reform Conversation We Need Is Not the One We Keep Having
by Jeff Bryant
TWO VIDEOS CAPTURED just about everything you need to know about the status of the movement known as “education reform.” The first filmed event was a staged encounter between two prominent advocates for what is…