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When the order to send kids to schools outside their neighborhood came down, one of our colleagues here at Michigan Radio recalled that it was almost like…

This week I saw two very different sides of the city of Flint.On Tuesday, Genesee County community members gathered for a Michigan Radio sponsored…

The number of kids with peanut allergy tripled between 1997 and 2008, according to Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE).The idea that your child…

Our State of Opportunity team is looking into ways disadvantaged children in Michigan can get ahead, and we're planning on bringing you many personal…

Tomorrow, State of Opportunity's Jennifer Guerra will report on Michigan's infant mortality rate. The one-hour documentary will air Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 3…

If you think of the best of what the charter school movement was meant to accomplish – you might think of a school a lot like University Prep Science +…

Kara Gavin wanted to know the answer to this question, "Why does the law allow such persistent disparity in school district funding? Could civil rights…

When it comes to the “cycle of poverty,” the brutal truth is more than 40 percent of children raised in poverty stay in poverty as adults. Among those who…

In 1998, Amy Valderas was a single mom with three kids, all under the age of seven. She stayed at home. She had no work experience. She lived with her…

Today we continue our story about a gun fight in Muskegon that put children’s lives at risk, and the one woman who ran into the gunfire to save the…