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The Safe Schools Coalition jammed the rotunda today to demand action on anti-bullying bills that passed the House last year.
The measure is called "Matt's Safe School Law," named after Matt EPLING, an East Lansing eighth-grader who took his own life in 2002 after severe hazing incidents. HB 4162 and HB 4091 are before the Senate Education Committee and activists called on Sen. Wayne KUIPERS (R-Holland) to take them up.

In an appearance on January 7 marking the sixth anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), President Bush said that he had instructed U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to move forward on reforms that she can do through the administrative process, should Congress fail to reauthorize NCLB.

School officials this year will likely wake up to the reality Michigan homeowners are facing: declining property values mean the loss of real money — value upon sale for homeowners and tax dollars for school districts.

News is percolating through the capital that sinking property and home values around the state could force state lawmakers to readjust the state school aid budget, because the dollars they thought would be available may not materialize. That could hurt efforts to create smaller high schools and pump more state support into early childhood education.

Michigan Schools AED Drill Week is February 25 - 29, 2008