Redesigning education in Michigan – Part 6: Building college-ready skills in K-12

Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the importance of educational attainment – both to our statewide economy and to individual economic mobility and prosperity –  and how we should be designing our K-16 education system to increase the number of Michiganders who attain bachelor’s degrees. This is the […]

Redesigning education in Michigan – Part 5: Developing writers

Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the importance of educational attainment – both to our statewide economy and to individual economic mobility and prosperity –  and how we should be designing our K-16 education system to increase the number of Michiganders who attain bachelor’s degrees. This is the […]

Redesigning education in Michigan – Part 4: Beyond free college

Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the importance of educational attainment – both to our statewide economy and to individual economic mobility and prosperity –  and how we should be designing our K-16 education system to increase the number of Michiganders who attain bachelor’s degrees. This fourth post […]

Redesigning education in Michigan – Part 3: college completion rates

Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the importance of educational attainment – both to our statewide economy and to individual economic mobility and prosperity – and how we should be designing our K-16 education system to increase the number of Michiganders who attain bachelor’s degrees. This third post […]

Redesigning education in Michigan – Part 1

Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the importance of educational attainment – both to our statewide economy and to individual economic mobility and prosperity – and how we should be designing our K-16 education system to increase the number of Michiganders who attain bachelor’s degrees. This first post […]

The Coalition for a Working Parents Tax Cut

Last week, we announced the formation of the Coalition for a Working Parents Tax Cut. The coalition consists of more than 80 groups and individuals, representing a broad cross-section of sectors, ideologies, and geographies, committed to the goal of providing more support to working parents with young children. The coalition sent a letter to the […]

How to support ALICE households at scale

In my last post, I explored the data in the latest ALICE report which showed that the share of Michigan households that did not earn enough to pay for basic necessities increased sharply between 2021 and 2022. The core reason for the increase is that the pandemic-induced social safety net erected in 2020 and 2021 […]