It makes sense that young people who have been abused or neglected would be more likely to get in serious trouble. But the numbers are nonetheless pretty amazing. Almost half ...
The federal government says Michigan’s education outcomes for kids in special education have to improve. But things like graduation rates aren't bad across the board. State ...
While the state minimum wage will go up to $8.15 an hour starting in September, tipped workers will only get a raise to 3 dollars and 51 cents an hour. Most tipped workers ...
Michigan’s schools are some of the most racially segregated in the country. The third most segregated, in fact. But would more diversity translate to better education for ...
Michigan’s foster care system is the sixth biggest in the country, with more than 13,000 kids. Many of them have a parent or relative who feels just as trapped by the system ...
Our State of Opportunity project has been following the story of a little boy named Charlie. His dad was scheduled to be deported this week and his school was scrambling to ...
Schools were more diverse when segregation in Detroit was challenged at the Supreme Court 40 years ago than they are today. Now only four percent of the children in Detroit ...
Next week marks the 40th anniversary of a seminal Civil Rights case. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case about busing and segregation in Detroit’s ...