Lori Higgins

3 weeks ago | bridgedetroit.com | Lori Higgins |Lauren Abdel-Razzaq

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. Challenges faced by working parents can contribute to chronic absenteeism, according to a new book. “The shift is like a twelve-hour shift,” said one parent whose experience was recounted in “Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism: Why Schools Can’t Solve It Alone,” which was written by two Wayne State University education researchers.

4 weeks ago | bridgedetroit.com | Lori Higgins |Lauren Abdel-Razzaq

Researchers Sarah Winchell Lenhoff and Jeremy Singer have been studying chronic absenteeism in Detroit for years, talking to scores of parents, students, educators, and school administrators along the way, and keeping track of many school efforts to reduce absenteeism. One thing they’ve learned during that time is that no matter how much passion schools put into solving the chronic absenteeism problem, they may be fighting a losing battle.

1 month ago | bridgedetroit.com | Lori Higgins |Christine Ferretti

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. A first-of-its-kind report says Michigan’s K-12 school buildings need $23 billion of work over the next decade — a dire situation that some superintendents said should prompt urgent policy discussions at the state level. A large chunk of that dollar amount, $10.9 billion, is for basic needs such as repairing HVAC systems and roofing.

1 month ago | bridgedetroit.com | Lori Higgins |Christine Ferretti

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. A group of 21 Democratic attorneys general has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration aiming to stop the mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education.

2 months ago | bridgemi.com | Isabel Lohman |Lori Higgins

Michigan’s four-year high school graduation rate is higher than last year and the last pre-pandemic school year School leaders cite additional academic support, credit recovery options and close monitoring of student dataState superintendent credits many course options as factor for student engagement, graduation totals Michigan’s four-year high school graduation rate is at the highest level in 16 years.