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1 week ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Rebecca Redelmeier |Christine Ferretti |Malachi Barrett |Bridge Detroit
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. Stavros, a 4-year-old at Denver’s Palmer Elementary School, stood on a low blue chair scooping soil into a white pot he’d decorated with his school picture and stickers of a donut, a camera, and the word “lucky.” Next, he shook in a packet of seeds for wildflowers native to Colorado and swirled them around with his index finger.
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chalkbeat.org | Christine Ferretti |Malachi Barrett |Bridge Detroit
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. MACKINAC ISLAND – Beyond its struggles with chronic absenteeism and academics, another ongoing challenge for Detroit’s public school district is a “disruptive” proliferation of marijuana.
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3 weeks ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Micah Walker |Bridge Detroit
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. The niece of a renowned Detroit educator and historian is asking the city’s school board to champion a proposal to ensure her aunt’s legacy endures as officials plan to close a school named after her. The Detroit Public Schools Community District board discussed the Catherine C. Blackwell Institute at its meeting this week.
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3 weeks ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Micah Walker |Bridge Detroit
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. Sharon Kelso tries to do everything she can to help Detroit families navigate the often confusing and complicated world of special education.
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1 month ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Micah Walker |Bridge Detroit
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. After years of little progress, two facility projects for Detroit Public Schools Community District are moving forward.
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1 month ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Micah Walker |Bridge Detroit
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, it was time for the students in Matthew Bracey’s classroom to get to work. But instead of pulling out pencils and notebooks, the teens put on neon yellow safety vests, hard hats, and work boots and began laying down rows of bricks with mortar mix and trowels.
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1 month ago | 
planetdetroit.org | Malachi Barrett |Bridge Detroit
Overview: -A concrete mixing plant in Cadillac Heights is legally allowed to operate due to its industrial zoning. -"My child cannot play in his own yard," says resident Matthew Tomasz. -The plant's owners say their ready-mix facility is eco-friendly, reduces airborne dust compared to manual mixing sites. Detroiters are organizing to shut down an east side concrete mixing plant owned by the powerful Moroun family.
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1 month ago | 
outliermedia.org | Malachi Barrett |Bridge Detroit
Originally published by BridgeDetroit. The Detroit City Council approved a $3 billion budget after making roughly $26 million in changes. Monday’s vote wrapped up three weeks of hearings and another week of negotiations to shift funding in Mayor Mike Duggan’s recommended 2025-26 budget and fund the priorities of council members. The final budget includes more money to hire police officers and bus drivers, a slight property tax cut and eliminates funding for the Detroit Land Bank Authority.
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2 months ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Jason Gonzales |Micah Walker |Bridge Detroit |Michael Elsen-Rooney
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. In the last few months, Milo can’t help but notice how the mood among his fellow students at Chicago’s Jones College Prep has shifted. What’s led to the change isn’t a development at the school itself, which is relatively friendly to queer and transgender students and where Milo, a senior, leads the Gay-Straight Alliance, or GSA.
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2 months ago | 
chalkbeat.org | Micah Walker |Bridge Detroit
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. The Detroiter behind a pop-up literacy initiative is branching out. Alyce Hartman, founder and executive director of Birdie’s Bookmobile, expects to open a children’s bookstore this month at 8700 Mack Avenue on the city’s east side.
