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Education

MiLEAP Awarded $395K

LANSING – The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) has been awarded a $395,000 grant from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to expand easy-to-reach behavioral health supports for Michigan early childhood providers. The funding will increase access to ...

Among the best

LANSING – Michigan in the last decade has ranked ninth among states in increasing student participation in Advanced Placement courses and 13th in improving scores that are high enough for students to possibly qualify for college credits, according to data for students in the Class of 2025 ...

Swimming Suffragettes

MARQUETTE — What’s the connection between bathing suits and women’s right to vote? Join as the Marquette Regional History Center and the League of Women Voters offers a special presentation at 5:30 p.m. April 22 at the center located at 145 W Spring St. in Marquette. Carrie Moon-Dupree, ...

It’s Reading Month

HOUGHTON — In a proclamation on Monday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared March as Reading Month and the Portage Lake District Library (PLDL) in Houghton is doing its part in helping out kids’ literary abilities in the Keweenaw. The proclamation celebrated the birthday of American ...

Jeffers Competes in High School Bowl

MARQUETTE – Jeffers took on Munising in High School Bowl recently and wa defeated by a score of 220-250. Thirty-six schools from the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin field teams for WNMU-TV's High School Bowl tournament, now celebrating 47 years on the air. Running from November through ...

U-M halts DEI plans as Trump administration takes aim at diversity efforts

“This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.” ANN ARBOR — The University of Michigan was the site of a program in the 1990s that became a model for the PhD Project, a national effort to ...