Talent & Education

State police believe OK2SAY has stopped suicides, assaults, vandalism, and worse.

With students in and out of classrooms because of COVID or just plain stress, one teacher describes the struggle of kids learning “how to do school again” in an unsustainable year.

Trying to head off infections from the new omicron variant, the University of Michigan and MSU are mandating employees and students who were vaccinated more than six months ago to get booster shots as soon as possible.

It's unclear if Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will sign the bill waiving some requirements for substitutes this year to ease a nationwide shortage.

It seemed like a common-sense accountability law. A decade later, though, almost all teachers are rated effective and students’ test scores have declined.

A bill allowing current school support staff to work as substitute teachers, even if they’ve never been to college, is meant to address a teacher shortage hobbling Michigan schools.

1978 was an era of school fire drills, not active-shooter training. Former students and a teacher recall how unprepared Everett High School was when a 15-year-old shot and killed one classmate and injured another.

Trying to change gun laws hasn’t worked, says a mother whose son died in a school shooting. Instead, she encourages compassion and relationships.

Students are finding fewer selections in school cafeterias this year because of supply chain issues.

Education is required from ages 6-16. State Board member Tom McMillin says that after a deadly school shooting in Oxford it’s time to rethink that practice. Other state education leaders dismissed the suggestion.

Oxford school officials are coming under scrutiny for what they did, and didn’t do, following disturbing interactions with the 15-year-old suspect before the shooting spree.

Chalkbeat put together a list of resources for families that help them understand how to monitor threats in their school and where to go for help dealing with trauma.

School districts are working with local law enforcement to probe the credibility of the online threats, with some school leaders saying it is not yet possible to keep up.

The extra money would be used for additional school resource officers across the state. The state has no idea how many officers already are in Michigan schools. Not everyone agrees more police are necessarily better.

Students said they were aware of ominous social media posts directed toward the school. Then, in an instant, they were texting parents from barricaded classrooms, before being rescued by deputies. “Don’t look to the right,” one class was told.

Ethan Crumbley is facing murder and terrorism charges as the suspect in Tuesday’s Oxford High School shooting. Prosecutors believe the rampage was premeditated.

School leaders say students and staff executed their training when an active shooter struck. But a teen was able to get a handgun into Oxford High to launch a rampage. 'Everything worked,' said one official, 'and it’s still a tragedy.'

The deaths of four students and wounding of several others is by far the state's worst school shooting.

It’s been 20 years since two students killed 13 people at Columbine High School. Today, Michigan schools use hockey pucks, hornet spray and gun sensors to train for the unthinkable. Are they ready? And at what cost?

'A deeply dark day for Michigan,' as a school shooter kills two girls, 14 and 17, and a 16-year-old boy with a gun that police say his father recently purchased.