Several schools have closed because of threats of violence. Each threat has to be taken seriously, but the closures are having an impact on students.

New test scores from the state show significant learning loss during the pandemic.

Michigan is allowing individual districts and county health departments to make mask policy -- a move education groups call a cop out.

The state got nearly $1.8 billion to help schools under the package enacted in late December. Noting that GOP legislators had not negotiated with her, the governor vetoed $652 million in other aid, including $97 million in federal school funds, until a deal is reached. The House on Wednesday quickly passed bills to restore the $652 million that was vetoed, including $405 million in state funding for pandemic-affected businesses. But many Democrats voted no, pointing out — as the governor has — that GOP legislators did not include all federal funding for rental home and food assistance. Michigan is due to receive billions in additional funding under the package headed to Biden's desk, including $3.8 billion for schools.