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Summer 2012

  • FY2013 State Budget CLOSE TO COMPLETION 
 

The state budget for Fiscal Year 2013 is quickly coming to completion with the House and Senate agreeing to a final budget that will now head to Governor Snyder for his signature. Read more.

  • MC Proudly Honors Heroes of High School Turn-Around

Just a few years ago almost half of the 9th grade students at Cody and Osborn High Schools in Southeast Michigan were dropping out before their sophomore year. Only about 40 percent of all students there were graduating. Read more.

  • Leadership Notes: A Farewell and a Welcome

Read letters from Former President/CEO, and Interim President/CEO, of Michigan's Children

  • Spring Youth Voices Events Focus on Education Options
Youth events this spring highlighted educational options that lead to equity for students, particularly those providing a second or third chance at graduating with a high school diploma while preparing students for post-secondary career or college success. Read more.

 

 

Winter 2012

  • Proposed State Budget Has Good & Bad for Kids, Families

On Thurday, February 9th, Governor Snyder released his second state budget, giving all Michiganders some insight into his priorities and strategies for moving Michigan forward. As always, Michigan's Children is scrutinizing the proposed budget to make sure that investments in children and families, including early education and care, and dropout prevention and recovery strategies, are priorities when scarce public funds are allocated. Read more.

  • Kids Count 2011: Your Voices Matters

Your voice can help determine the impact of the 2011 Michigan Kids Count Data Book. Constituent conversation with policymakers is critical to their understanding and utilization of the data. Read more.

  • President's Message

Read Jack Kresnak's assesment of Gov. Snyder's administration.

  • Much Ado Goes On Despite Snowstorm

While one of the year's biggest snowstorms wreaked havoc outside, supporters gathered inside the warmth of the Country Club of Lansing on Nov. 29 to recognize some special people who help us achieve our vision of making Michigan the best state in America to be a child. Read more.

  • 2011 in Review

As we look ahead to our priorities and goals for this new year, it's also important to reflect on accomplishments and progress made in 2011. Read more.

  • Special excerpt from an Our Life in D youth writer

Read a portion of 16-year-old Sare Vang's essay on Martin Luther King, Jr.

 


Fall 2011

President's Message

Every year too many young people in Michigan drop out of school before getting a high school diploma – 16,000 youths, or 11 percent of students who should be graduating. Read more.

 

Changing Child Demographics Lead to New Race Project

Approximately 31 percent of Michigan’s child population is made up of children of color. Since the 2000 Census, that percentage has grown four percent and experts predict it will be only a few decades until children of color make up the majority. Read more.

 

Youth Voices Events

Michigan’s Children recently hosted three youth events, continuing our mission to bring the voices of young people to policymakers. Read more.

 

Kids Count: Suffering Increases for Michigan Kids

The latest Kids Count Data Book released in August contains some sobering and tragic news about Michigan’s children whose suffering continues to grow in these trying economic times. Read more.

 

Our Life in the D

Congressman John Conyers met in August with some students participating in Our Life in the D, our innovative journalism project helping to increase civic engagement and lift up the voices of young people in Detroit. Read more.

 

Much Ado About Something Wonderful event

Michigan's Children invities you to mark your calendar and plan to attend our 12th annual Much Ado About Something Wonderful reception honoring elected officials and others who are doing something wonderful to benefit children in Michigan. Read more.

 

Spring 2011

  • Legislators, Business Leaders Agree Early Childhood a Priority: A bipartisan group of more than two dozen state law-makers, business leaders and child advocates gathered on March 21 at the HighScope Educational Research Foundation in Ypsilanti to discuss the importance of investing in early childhood to build an educated and skilled workforce for Michigan. Read more
  • What is P-20?: P-20 is a cradle-to-career approach to education, recognizing that education doesn’t start and stop at the classroom door. Factors affecting educational success begin in the womb with proper prenatal care, continue after birth by ensuring a safe, healthy and strong support system, and extend into young adulthood leading to a career and economic self-sufficiency. Read more
  • President's Message: The idea was to write stories that went beyond the tragedies then afflicting children, particularly kids in urban centers like Detroit who were being shot, beaten to death, generally mistreated and pretty much ignored by ordinary people and the powers that be. Read more
  • Young people share trials, triumphs at Detroit KidSpeak 2011: Finishing high school while raising two children was full of challenges for twenty-year-old Kinita McDaniel. But she knew she had to set an example for her kids and provide a good life for them, so she persevered with the help of Detroit’s Ferguson Academy for Young Women, an alternative school where she found the supports she needed to excel. Read more
  • 2011 Policy Agenda: Ensuring our children are ready to learn and lead: The Board of Directors of Michigan’s Children has established the following policy agenda for our legislative and administrative advocacy during the 95th Legislative and 112th Congressional sessions. Read more
  • Budget Crisis 2011: The release of Governor Snyder’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2012 launches a new year of Budget Basics reports by Michigan’s Children. These reports provide information and recommendations regarding State of Michigan budget proposals and decisions affecting children and families. Read more

 


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