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RTT Language - The right of passage of 16 is gone for 6th graders and younger

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HB 4787 - Modifies the school age law beginning with this years (09-10) 6th graders (11 years old). These student may not drop out of school until 18. There are exceptions.

Achieve Report Shows High School Diplomas More Meaningful Today Than Four Years Ago

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News Statement
CONTACT: Sandy Boyd, (202) 419-1542, sboyd@achieve.org

Momentum Builds, Yet Work Remains in the Years Ahead to Ensure All Students Graduate Ready for College and Careers

Protecting Children During U.S. Emergencies

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How safe are our schools and day-care centers when disaster strikes?

Some 67 million children are enrolled in U.S. kindergartens, schools and child-care centers. Many parents assume these facilities are fully equipped to safeguard their children. However, for millions of parents this confidence may be misplaced.

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A New Shape for Schooling

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This is the first pamphlet in the second series emerging from the dialogue between schools and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust on the topic of personalizing learning.  It provides a background and overview to the first four pamphlets of the new series under their generic titles:
Deep Learning (Emma Sims)
Deep Experience (David Hargreaves)
Deep Support (Sue Williamson)
Deep Leadership (David Hargreaves)
 
These four pamphlets, with the overview provided here, are published simultaneously.  Ideally, they should be read as a whole  and in sequence.  Their main intended audience is school leaders, particularly those who have been working on the personalization agenda.

Dual Enrollment Notification to Students

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STATE OF MICHIGAN  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION LANSING 

 

State Board of Education: Planning School Services Consolidation Recommendations

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Fearing a push by legislators to physically consolidate school districts as a way to save operations funds, the State Board of Education pushed for recommendations in the coming months to encourage local and intermediate districts to consolidate more of the non-instructional services they offer.

Members of the board's Consolidation of Services Committee said Tuesday that recent and expected education funding cuts, or cost increases, are already pushing many districts to look at ways of sharing resources. But they were not sure if there was need for board policy or legislation to nudge more districts in that direction.

2009 National School Conference on International Youth Exchange

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The 2nd Annual National School Conference on International Youth Exchange will provide a unique opportunity for school leaders, educators and administrators to meet and network with school colleagues and leaders of various youth exchange programs.  CSIET, the Connecticut Department of Education and the Capitol Region Education Council have come together to sponsor this conference to provide a forum on a wide range of topics related to international youth exchange.   
 
The conference will include informative sessions such as the Nuts & Bolts of Exchange Programs, School to School Exchanges, the Dualities of Culture Shock, Outbound Exchanges, and a Toolkit for Advocacy.

Implementation of the Redesigned CIMS-2 for Special Education and Early Intervention Services

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STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, LANSING
JENNIFER M. GRANHOLM, GOVERNOR  
MICHAEL P. FLANAGAN, SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 
 
December 17, 2008
 
MEMORANDUM 

Graduation/Dropout Review and Comment Application Release

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STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, LANSING

JENNIFER M. GRANHOLM. GOVERNOR

MICHAEL P. FLANAGAN, SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

MEMORANDUM 

DATE: December 17, 2008 

TO:  Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents, Public School Academy Administrators, Secondary School Principals 

FROM: Sally Vaughn, Ph.D., Deputy Superintendent/Chief Academic Officer, Michigan Department of Education (MDE)  

Court: Michigan Schools Forced to Bear Reporting Costs

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Court: Mich. schools forced to bear reporting costs
BY DAWSON BELL • FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU • JULY 7, 2008
LANSING – Michigan state government has been shortchanging local school districts millions of dollars a year by failing to reimburse the cost of enhanced reporting requirements under education reforms enacted in the last decade, the state Court of Appeals ruled today.

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