The Education Trust-Midwest continues its quest to prod our state's leaders to do what is needed to improve our schools.
The nonpartisan research and advocacy organization is out with a new plan containing five specific ideas to reverse the decline in Michigan education and put the state on track to become a top-ten performer in education.
Amber Arellano, the group's executive director, joined Stateside to outline these five ideas. She also discussed successful educational systems in states like Massachusetts and Tennessee and the need to uncouple education policy from partisan politics.
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