Education Reform In Michigan

The situation with Detroit Public Schools has been taking turns for the worse. Every day it seems like something is adding up to the pile of Detroit Public School District issues. DPS has been considered as “The Worst School District” in the country. DPS have been struggling to improve the school district, The district has been trying for decades as nothing has been working. Detroit Public Schools main issues that need to be tackled down includes: unhealthy environments, oversized classrooms, and the district’s unbalance of power.

We’ve come a long way, baby! Over the past 100 years of public education in the great state of Alabama, changes in education have been literally fought for by blood, sweat and tears. However, with the desegregation issues from 1964 closed for the past 50 years, state legislatures still find plenty of arguments concerning public education reforms. Most of these arguments, though, are essentially concerns about federal control over state. Thanks to several federal acts, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 the students of Alabama schools are all getting a better education. Just by these two acts,

High quality education is a must in U.S. since it means that today's youth will be prepared with the knowledge needed to tackle our nations issues. When looking from state to state, you will notice how various states differ in how well they are able to educate students. Maryland was ranked number one in the nation by having a high grade point average amongst students and an equally high graduation rate. Texas on the other hand had the worst grade point average and graduation rate. The reason for this is the amount of funding that goes into public schools. Maryland puts a lot of funding into their public schools which helps raise grade point averages. Meanwhile Texas puts little funding into public schools and

Facts: Kentucky’s 168 school districts ranked nationally in the lower 20-25% in virtually every academic category. Educational standards throughout the state’s districts were not uniform, and found to disproportionately hinder the academic growth of minority and socioeconomically poorer

A new era of education reform strategy creators has taken up the reason for changing state educational systems to get ready understudies for a drastically evolving economy, brought on by state-level support groups who are assuming a significant part in propelling change state by state.

After several years of success, the required cuts along with economic woes rendered Proposal A largely ineffective and unable to properly fund Michigan’s schools, creating a massive problem in the way Michigan school districts are to be funded, as well as developing a need for new educational policy to supplement or overhaul Proposal A and the Michigan educational system.

With hair brain schemes to eliminate state taxes and make more public school dollars available to private schools, anything close to adequate funding is not looking good for public schools. The only hope and prayer for K-12 education is for an outlier Republican legislator (not sure if such a creature exists) or a Democrat legislator who has yet to give up the ghost (such a creature is definitely mythical in Mississippi) embraces the wisdom behind the state purchasing massive blocks of Powerball tickets from Louisiana to bolster education funding. However, even if enough support could be garnered for such a plan, and the legislature designated lottery winnings go to K-12 public school education, everybody knows there is no guarantee the state Legislature would stand by such a

From low test scores to high schools dropouts, Detroit is known as the least educated city in the nation.  This can lead to a variety of issues, including a rise in criminal activity and the inability for residents to make a positive impact on their city.  In 2009, an article was published by Taham Bradley from ABC News called “What Is the Worst School System in America?”.  Bradley writes in the article that “We've always known Detroit public schools were among the worst in the nation but we haven't seen data like this before...Detroit school children ranked the lowest in the nation of participants on the National Assessment of Educational Progress math test.”  Detroit Public Schools are horrible.  These low test scores don’t just hurt Detroit, but bring down our nation, making our education system fall behind on the international scale.  That is why lawmakers decided to make a bold move and close down Detroit Public Schools for good.  In an article by Avi Asher-Schapiro called “Detroit shifts debt, launches new district with local control”, it is mentioned that “In early June 2016, lawmakers approved a $617 million bailout of Detroit Public Schools to restructure nearly $4 billion in crippling debt.  The plan will divide the schools into an old district-- a legal entity which will pay down debt over time-- and a new debt-free district known as the Detroit Public School Community District, which will be given $150 million startup loan from the state.”  This plan is expected to turn out for the better, by getting rid of the name and bankruptcy of the previous school system and replacing it with this more improved and better funded one.  Schools are the foundation that will teach the new generation of Detroiters  to be successful members of society to help improve the city for years to come.  Detroit’s education system is on the road to recovery, the road to what it was like in the early 60s.  In the book

The heightened focus on education equity and adequacy has garnered substantial attention from both policy makers and media outlets. As a result of the spotlight, school finance litigation has forced states to not only change the way they fund schools but to improve and update their states’ assessment and accountability systems. (Griffith, 2005).

“In 1983 American education reform entered a new era. It was in that year that the federal government published a report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education entitled A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. Commissioned in August 1981 by President Ronald Reagan's secretary of education, Terrel H. Bell, and chaired by David P.” (1). School reform has been poisoning our American educational system for 33 years and keeps on going with Obamas’ No Child Left Behind. This article should inform you on how school reform had developed, what is still causing the problem, and how school reform affects society.

The scenario of Massachusetts was one of my favorite readings this week. The main reason is that people from the business, education, politics, parents, teachers and members of the community were involved in the creation of an educational reform in the state of Massachusetts. The system’s lack of clear goals, lack of accountability, uneven performance of school, failures rates in some areas and for some children, are some of the most salient features that impress the business leaders in the late 1980s (Blankstein & Noguera, 2015). The program of these business leaders, called “Every Child a Winner!” “reshaped the Commonwealth’s public education system with a combination of standards and accountability measures, systems improvements ranging from new executive authority for superintendents to the establishment of charter schools, and a finance system overhaul resulting in a more progressive distribution of school finance.” (Blankstein & Noguera, 2015, p. 188). Through this program, the educational system of Massachusetts were transformed to be the first in the whole nation by having a diverse, nonpartisan leadership, explicit equity arguments, high expectation, investment in infrastructure, inclusive approach to policy and implementation, and long-term commitment by various partners. (Blankstein & Noguera, 2015). However, this system has some errors, like having the emphasis on testing then good classroom teaching, and some of

Focusing on Rhode Island’s future, which encompasses the education of our youth is a continuing topic of discussion. However, it is emphasized when neighboring states are outperforming Rhode Island’s public school children. Complicating the issue is the performance of Rhode Island public school children fall near or even slightly below the national average on several standardized tests. Delivering more and better services is a persistent need for governments. Mounting costs of delivering services has forced administrators

As another example, the National Center for Education Statistics reported for fiscal year 2012 that state and local governments in 24 states were spending less per pupil in their poorest school districts than they were in their most affluent school districts. Pennsylvania had the highest differential in the country with state and local per-pupil spending in its poorest school districts 33% lower than per-pupil spending in the state’s most affluent school districts (Brown, 2015).

In California, the academic achievement of low-income minority students in urban public schools falls behind the academic achievement of white students in higher-income areas. For example, according to the 2013 STAR test results, 86% of white non-economically disadvantaged 9th graders at Antelope High School, in the Roseville Unified School District, attained advanced scores in reading compared to only 58% of low-income Black and 49% Hispanic ninth graders (California Department of Education, 2015).

Results taken from the executive summary of the Education Law Center in New Jersey show that a small percentage of states who have funding systems put in place and provide greater funding to high poverty districts remain the most progressive states yearly. Whereas a larger percentage of states have funding systems where districts with higher poverty rates receive less funding, these states remain the most regressive. (School funding disparities persist, analysis shows).