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The number of third graders able to read at proficiency dipped below 40% for the first time in Michigan after scores plummeted during the state’s strict COVID-19 lockdowns. In 2015, 50% of third graders read at grade level.
Whitmer is widely regarded as a rising Democratic star. Once rumored as a front-running contender to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, the governor gave a high-profile speech last week at the Democratic National Convention. While acclaimed within her party, Republicans in her home state immediately laid the blame for the grim educational news at the Democratic governor’s feet.
Greene is a Navy veteran who homeschooled her children before retiring from teaching them last year. “I never thought in a million years that I would be the public school champion, but that is what I believe I have to do now because our literacy rates are low,” she reflected.Greene added that she’s “100%” sure Whitmer’s move to create another educational program is “detracting from funding that the department actually needs” to help children perform better in schools.
“The funding that we’re concerned about primarily is this $414 million that the governor’s proposing come out of Michigan Department of Education and go to this MiLeap that she’s created,” Tom McMillin, a member of the State Board of Education,CBS in February.
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