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Michigan drivers will soon be subject to automatic traffic enforcement near construction zones and at school bus stops. Here’s what to know about the new law, designed to deter rulebreakers.
While House lawmakers calling it quits for the year, the Senate worked through the night in a record 29-hour meeting. Here’s what’s headed to the governor.
Government transparency, gun reforms, polluter pay proposals among more than 250 bills that died as the Michigan House abruptly adjourned for the year, ending Democratic control of the lower chamber.
The four bills would put restrictions on the use of taxpayer money to buy and lease private property and require more financial transparency for charter schools.
More doctors but fewer insurance options for the needy? Tax credits for private schools, but not EVs? Here’s what residents can expect in 2025 under President-elect Donald Trump.
Michigan will implement cameras in work zones to prevent construction-related crashes and on school buses to track people who fail to stop. The work-zone traffic systems can automatically issue tickets.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) unlocks grants and student loans. Michigan leaders are split on whether requiring students to fill out the form to graduate is a good idea.
Michigan Democrats have advanced a bill that would require students to attend kindergarten. It’s unclear how many students are not attending kindergarten right now.
Weekend camps, home visits and flexible transportation options make up some of the ways Lansing School District is aiming to improve its graduation rates.
Michigan is 31st nationwide for broadband access, with 1 in 10 residents lacking access. Slowly but surely, though, it is spreading across rural Michigan.
When big box stores receive lowered tax assessments, the impact is felt in schools and township halls. The tax policy may be debated in the upcoming ‘lame duck’ session.
The president-elect’s choice for education secretary is a big choice advocate. In Michigan, one quarter of the state’s 1.37 million public students attend a charter or school outside their district.
With the third anniversary of the school shooting approaching, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she still hasn’t received the cooperation from local officials necessary to begin an outside inquiry.
Staring at screens when they most needed the refining fire of in-person interactions, these now late teens to early-20-somethings missed crucial steppingstones to adulthood.
Five of the bills — which pertain to charter schools publicly posting information about salaries and displaying the names of their authorizers and management companies — already passed in the House.
