Education leaders alarmed over lagging Michigan reading, math scores, Trump education plan

Education leaders alarmed over lagging Michigan reading, math scores, Trump education plan

A new report puts Michigan in the bottom half of the nation for both fourth grade reading and math.

Detroit Free Press: Education leaders alarmed over lagging Michigan reading, math scores, Trump education plan – MLPP

While federal lawmakers consider slashing billions of dollars from the federal education budget, Michigan education leaders are once again sounding the alarm on public school students’ lagging academic achievement, which puts the state in the bottom half of the nation for both fourth grade reading and eighth grade math, according to a new report. The report is an annual analysis from EdTrust-Midwest, a Detroit-based advocacy organization that ha…

Michigan advocates fear ‘devastating’ impact of Trump education cuts

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. This story also appeared in Chalkbeat Detroit Advocates are calling on Michigan legislators to invest more state dollars into targeted funding for students living in poverty as the Trump administration’s efforts to slash federal education funding could have “devastating” impacts on the most vulnerable students. An a…