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The $125 million appropriation includes money for literacy coaches and dyslexia services, as well as campus resource officers, alarm systems, or other safety upgrades.

Today, we talk about things to think about as Michigan contemplates changes with minimum wages for tipped workers. Also, writer Michael Spradlin on adapting the political run-up to the Third Reich into a story young people can grasp. Plus: chef Abra Berens has ideas about what to do with the insanely prolific bounteous harvest of Michigan fruit available at your grocery or farmers’ market.

Today, the story of how a B-list celebrity reshaped the Republican party…in the 1970s. We chat with the host of the podcast Landslide, which explores how the presidential face-off between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan helped shape our current political climate. Then, book lovers unite in Detroit! A community event is coming this weekend, uniting readers across genres and generations.

What the Project 2025 playbook might look like for Michigan during a second Trump term. Then, a beautifully illustrated 60-year-old children’s book written by a nonagenarian Beaver Island resident publishes for the first time. And, things to keep in mind for yourself and children while summertime doom scrolling on your phone.

Michigan public school students would undergo periodic screenings for dyslexia under legislation passed Tuesday in the state Senate.

Senate Bill 567 would re-tool early elementary reading assessments to screen for signs of dyslexia, while companion bill SB 568 would boost instruction about spotting the learning disability in teacher education programs.

Middle school is a notoriously difficult time to be a kid. We talked with Detroit-based author Jack Cheng about his new young adult novel, The Many Masks of Andy Zhou.

Michigan third graders would no longer face a state retention recommendation for not reading at grade level under a bill that passed the Legislature Wednesday.

Detroiters were on the case this year. Or at least, they were reading about the cases. Mysteries lead this year’s top books at the Detroit Book Library.

Book Beat, a bookstore in Oak Park, celebrated its 40th birthday this past weekend.