Education Achievement Authority

The Education Achievement Authority is up and running right now in 15 Detroit schools.Michigan’s state-run “reform district” for the lowest-performing…

Ellen Cogen Lipton is a patent attorney who was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Alabama, and ended up in Michigan 20 years ago, after marrying a fellow…

If there’s a school near you that’s been deemed “persistently low-achieving,” it could soon come under the control of a new regime.Governor Snyder is…

Debate is underway in Lansing on bills that would expand on an educational experiment now underway in Detroit.It's called the Education Achievement…

Lawmakers in the state House have approved an expansion of a state-run authority to run struggling schools. The Education Achievement Authority already…

The Education Achievement Authority says new data show students in that school district are making progress.The EAA is a state-run district for the…

Governor Rick Snyder says expanding a state-run district for struggling schools is one of his top priorities for 2013. The Education Achievement Authority…

On Wednesday, we heard Gov. Rick Snyder's chief education advisor say this:"We have over 230 schools where zero children were college-ready when they got…

Michigan's new statewide district for low-performing schools was not a winner in a national competition to share a $400 million prize. The Education…

State lawmakers are mulling over a number of bills that would overhaul public education in Michigan.One measure would expand a new state-run district…