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Wednesday: Learning

Struggle bus: districts trying to fill driver seats

LANSING — School districts across the state are continuing the search for bus drivers to fill critical positions. Katrina Morris, the executive director of the Michigan Association for Pupil Transportation, said there’s been a shortage for a while, but the COVID-19 pandemic made it ...

Manufacturers work to put career tech back into schools

LANSING — As high school shop and technical education classes fade from curriculums across the nation, manufacturers are looking to increase the number of their workforce with their own training programs. Michigan is known for its manufacturing industry, being a leader in the automaking ...

Analyzing the Holocaust

MARQUETTE — Andrew Port, a leading scholar of modern Germany and professor at Wayne State University, will present “Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust” at Northern Michigan University on Thursday. He will discuss how the Holocaust shaped German responses to ...

Michigan makes progress in teacher shortage

LANSING — The number of future educators in Michigan is on the rise once again after a severe dip in enrollment in teaching programs. The Michigan Department of Education says the state has the highest level of students preparing to become teachers since the 2013-14 school year. The ...

Young voters turn out in increasing numbers

LANSING — In the late 1700s when America was drafting the Constitution and forming a democracy, it was vitally important that citizens had the right to vote. Since then, people have fought for their right to vote, including constitutional amendments to protect those rights. In 1971, the ...

Book banning

LANSING — Shelves laden with row upon row of books fill public libraries with stories of history, fantasy and anything in between. Whether they are new books with gleaming spines or used ones creased from being held open for hours, the stories within remain the same. Now the Michigan ...