MATT KOLESZAR

For Sen. Dayna Polehanki, D-Livonia, that’s fixing Michigan’s grade three reading law which requires schools to retain students who don’t score high enough in the subject on a specific standardized test. During the 2021-22 school year, approximately 5,680 of Michigan’s third-graders were flagged as eligible for retention after scoring below the state’s English language arts standards. “Grade retention doesn’t help kids to read. “I think literacy, teacher retention, recruitment, and making sure that we’re doing everything we can to be a resource to our schools is where we need to be at,” he said. Repealing the retention portion of the state’s “Read By Grade 3″ law is also a priority where Koleszar is concerned.

As families struggle to make ends meet, one big hit to the bottom line just happened: checking off those long school supplies lists is far from cheap.

Beagles rescued from a research breeding facility were visited by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel at the Humane Society of Huron Valley (HSHV) on Tuesday.

LIVONIA, MI — A Michigan House candidate has been disqualified from competing in the Aug. 2 primary after the Wayne County clerk’s office deemed him ineligible for the ballot. Republican Rob Donovic, a Livonia City Council member who filed to compete for the new 22nd District seat April 18, said he’s now planning a legal challenge. He maintains he meets the requirements to run in the new district that stretches from Livonia to Plymouth to Northville. “Republican candidates up and down the ballot can’t seem to stop committing election fraud,” Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lavora Barnes said in a statement. “Despite their feigned concern about election security, Republicans like Rob Donovic seem to think that Michigan election laws don’t apply to them.”Donovic fired back, saying Koleszar and the Michigan Democratic Party will stop at nothing to gain and remain in power.

State Rep. Matt Koleszar, D-Plymouth, submitted a request to the Attorney General’s office asking for an opinion to enforce the law in Michigan surrounding the use of animals in experimentation. The law also required research facilities to comply with those rules or lose the ability to operate. Instead, researchers have continued to conduct animal experiments without any state regulation of how the animals are treated. First, that MDHHS should draft the Michigan standards with the understanding that certain federal laws and regulation also apply to entities conducting animal research. And secondly, that her opinion does not intend to mandate that all currently ongoing animal research in Michigan must cease — unless and until the laboratories are registered by DHHS.

Thanks to a new law, there are no longer financial restrictions for kids of police and firefighters that died in line of duty to apply for free college tuition in Michigan.

Lily Sawyers’ father, Mark Sawyers, was ambushed in a parking lot on 15 Mile Road when she was 11 months old. Her graduation was on the 17th anniversary of her father’s death.

Michigan lawmakers were quick to condemn the plot to kidnap Gov. Only terrorists resort to violence.”Related: Plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. And yet, the Michigan Capitol Commission, and GOP Leadership continue to allow guns inside the Capitol. “It is also abundantly clear, now more than ever before, that immediate action must be taken to prohibit firearms from the State Capitol building. Governor Whitmer is a friend.