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There’s a new blueprint for the future of school accountability in Michigan. The state’s Department of Education on Tuesday unveiled its draft plan for…

Michigan spends about $5.6 billion on social welfare programs a year, and that doesn't include health care. Even though that's only about 10% of the…

Here are a couple of recent stories that illustrate two sides of the line between purposeful employment of technology and careless use of it.In San…

State of Opportunity is coming to a Detroit community near you!We want to hear from local residents on the question: do you see a future for yourself and…

Lots of people are talking about how if Congress fails to reach a bipartisan budget agreement by the start of the New Year, $1.2 trillion worth of…

Here at State of Opportunity we write stories about children who are considered 'at risk'. We often correlate being 'at risk' with one's racial group or…

We know not all public schools are the same. Some are amazing, some are fine, and some are failing. The same is true about charter schools. And some…

I remember the first time I saw a homeless person. I was seven years old and on vacation in New York City with my family. This was New York back in the…

I've been thinking a lot about names lately - what they mean, what they project, what kinds of assumptions people make when they hear a name. So I decided…

It was February 2006, almost exactly 10 years ago, when then-governor Jennifer Granholm used her weekly radio address to urge state lawmakers to pass a…