Governance
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Agenda highlights for Monday’s school board meeting
Agenda highlights for Monday’s school board meeting: • YMCA recognition • School safety update • District course catalog updates • Robotic field liner purchase • Board committee updates * Not on the agenda but worth noting was last week’s excellent Curriculum Committee discussion on Special Education. Learn more about that here: https://bit.ly/47vHPKF 🗓️ Monday, October…
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Proposed rules out for the new federal Education Freedom Tax Credit
Interesting timing in today’s Record-Eagle: a profile of our 7 TCAPS school board candidates that touched on school vouchers. It got me thinking about something every school board member—and, frankly, everyone who cares about public K-12 education—should be paying attention to. The U.S. Treasury just released proposed rules for the new federal Education Freedom Tax…
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We can’t take our eyes off math
We know we have work to do in reading. And we also know we can’t take our eyes off math. This recent Bridge Michigan story highlights a conversation happening across the state: while Michigan has rightly focused significant attention on improving literacy, math outcomes remain a major challenge for students. Math outcomes are more than…
