Gov. Gretchen Whitmer joined NEA President Lily Eskelsen García on a webinar on Wednesday night where members of the nation’s largest union – our education association – were urged to press Congress to send money to states for public education needs. The global pandemic has wreaked havoc on state budgets across the country, Whitmer noted.…
Following on the heels of major wins for local school funding in March, this past Tuesday’s local elections saw nearly all funding measures pass amidst huge absentee voter turnout. Of 36 local school millage and bond votes on the ballot Tuesday, only two lost. The biggest win of the day was the overwhelming renewal the…
EAST LANSING – “We are only as strong as we are united, weak as we are divided.” That quote from Headmaster Albus Dumbledore in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” epitomizes teacher Ashley Calhoun’s one-stop shop for free food, books, school supplies and toiletries on her Homer porch during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lillian…
