The following is a summary of a previously recorded interview. To hear the complete segment, click the audio above.
Last month, The Center for Michigan, a non-partisan, non-profit think tank, released its major report on K-12 public education in our state.
It was the largest effort ever to collect and analyze what the public thinks about Michigan schools and teachers.
As we heard here on Stateside, that report was based on hundreds of meetings with people all over the state.
And emerging from those discussions was a clear theme: the best way to improve Michigan schools is to improve the skills of the person standing at the front of the classroom.
Two-thirds of Michiganders say we need to hold teachers more accountable.
Four out of every five say they want teachers to be better prepared for the classroom.
Cyndy spoke with a high school principal, an education expert and a professor of teacher education to make sense of these statistics.
