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TEACHER MENTAL HEALTH: Teachers increasingly report that they have mental health problems but too few options for counseling or treatment. A Negaunee teacher-turned-school counselor talks about her district’s effort to address the problem. We also hear from the Michigan Association of School Psychologists president, from Southfield, and the Michigan Association of School Boards. By Katie Finkbeiner. FOR MARQUETTE, SAULT STE. MARIE, IRON MOUNTAIN, ST. IGNACE, DETROIT AND ALL POINTS.
w/TEACHER MENTAL HEALTH HALAMKA PHOTO: Becky Halamka, founder of Superior Educator Wellness Services. Credit: Becky Halamka
w/TEACHER MENTAL HEALTH: Don Wotruba, executive director of the Michigan Association of School Boards. Credit: Donté Smith
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HOMESCHOOLING: Michigan is among a minority of states that don’t require parents and guardians to report if they are homeschooling their children. That means nobody knows for sure whether some children are falling through the cracks educationally. Department of Education statistics show lots of year-to-year variation in the number of homeschool children in the state. We hear from the Michigan Association of School Boards, the Education Department and a homeschool advocacy group lawyer who himself was homeschooled on a U.P. dairy farm. By Anna Rossow. FOR MARQUETTE AND ALL POINTS.
W/HOMESCHOOLING WOTRUBA PHOTO: Don Wotruba, executive director of the Michigan Association of School Boards. Credit: Donté Smith
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ELECTRIC BUS WAVE: New state grants from the Department of Education and Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy are helping school districts electrify their bus fleets and reduce air pollution and operating costs. We talk to school transportation officials in Troy and Allen Park. Among the other grantees are districts in Alpena, Grand Rapids, Kalkaska, Three Rivers, Pellston, Saline, Kentwood and Ludington. By Donté Smith. FOR DETROIT, PLANET DETROIT, ALPENA, WKTV, GRAND RAPIDS BUSINESS, THREE RIVERS, SALINE, TRAVERSE CITY, PETOSKEY AND ALL POINTS.
w/ELECTRIC BUS WAVE PHOTO: An electric bus connects to a charge port at Three Rivers Public Schools. Credit: Three Rivers Public School.
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DEAF & RESILIENCE: Six years ago, the Association for the Advancement of Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing was founded by Detroit mothers who wanted to create change and educational programming for their deaf children and community. Now, with a $5,000 city grant, its mission is expanding to include climate equity, with a focus on healthy eating and growing one’s own food. By Jada Vasser. FOR DETROIT AND ALL POINTS.
w/DEAF & RESILIENCE PHOTO: Deaf and hard-of-hearing youth prepare seeds for a new community garden in Detroit. Credit: Jurmel Mitchell Sr.
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HARNESSING MUSSELS: Scientists, including ones at Gull Lake in Southwest Michigan, are studying the impact and relationship of native and invasive mussels on water quality. We hear from experts at MSU and Central Michigan University. By Amalia Medina. FOR STURGIS, THREE RIVERS, MONROE, COLDWATER, HOLLAND, WKTV, ALPENA, ALCONA, CHEBOYGAN, TRAVERSE CITY, OCEANA COUNTY, LEELANAU, PETOSKEY, HARBOR SPRINGS, LUDINGTON, MARQUETTE, ST. IGNACE AND ALL POINTS.
w/HARNESSING MUSSELS NATIVES PHOTO: Mussels native to Michigan’s fresh water. Credit: Daelyn Woolnough
w/HARNESSING MUSSELS DEAD PHOTO: Dead zebra mussels from Gull Lake. Credit: Stephen Hamilton
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