substitute teachers

The state Senate has voted for a bill to encourage recently retired teachers to return as substitutes. The aim is to help fill a shortage of school workers.

Last week, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill into law that allows other school employees to work as substitute teachers until the end of the current school year.

Staff shortages are the story for this phase of the pandemic and perhaps one of the more difficult spaces this is playing out is in our public education system.

Michigan schools could face an even worse substitute teacher shortage because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The state released guidelines last month outlining…

Today on Stateside, Gretchen Whitmer will deliver the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union speech Tuesday. We talk to two…

Today on Stateside, a Democratic congressman is proposing new regulations for safe disposal of PFAS. Plus, schools around the state are increasingly…

A new report lays out the specifics behind a widely-acknowledged problem in Michigan school districts—they can’t find enough substitute teachers, and the…

A company that employs substitute teachers unexpectedly shut down operations in Michigan on Monday, leaving several school districts around the state…

Michigan expects there will be a shortage of teachers in certain subjects this school year. Early childhood, special education, foreign language and a…

The Detroit Public Schools system has filed an unfair labor practice against the district's teachers' union over a substitute teacher dispute. The…