Education

The order would allow all schools to remain closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while no third grade students will be flunked for failure to read. 

But thousands of pre-ordered meals were never picked up - and now the school district is asking parents to take action.

There's some concern that brick-and-mortar students may be falling behind.

The state of Michigan said Friday that online lessons won't count towards the state's annual hourly requirements.

The Michigan Department of Education has released a map to find available free meals for students amid the school closures for the coronavirus state of emergency.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer is ordering the closure of all K-12 school buildings, public, private, and boarding, to students starting Monday, March 16 until Sunday, April 5 in an effort to slow the outbreak of COVID-19. School buildings are scheduled to reopen on Monday, April 6. 

Dearborn Public Schools has announced Whitmore-Bolles Elementary school is being closed as a precaution after a staff member was exposed to someone with COVID-19.

Instead of spending his spring break on the beach, Joey Maniaci is spending it shadowing a Henry Ford Hospital physician in hopes of becoming a doctor himself one day.

Lincoln Park High School has organized and is now offering a free physical and mental health clinic to all of its 5,000 students.

The non- profit organization provides hands on educational training using cutting edge technology.

On Tuesday in Lansing, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the creation of four committees that will work to combat the spread of coronavirus. One of the four committees will focus on combating the virus at public schools, universities and colleges. 

The Brownstown middle school sixth grader is also passionate about helping others. As part of the Great Program at her school, kids were asked to do some volunteer work in their community.

Parents packed the Saline Elementary School cafeteria for the first of five scheduled listening sessions meant at addressing racism in the district.

Computer coding schools line shopping plazas in California. Raj Patel and his wife bought into the franchise, bringing the first of its kind school to Michigan.  

Fast forward 21 years and the term mass shooting is a fixture in our national lexicon. By some counts there have been more than 300 school shootings since Columbine, forcing many school districts to constantly change their security protocols.

The crash killed 89-year-old Mary Lackamp causing reaction to pour into The University of Detroit Jesuit High School community from those who knew her.