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DETROIT — A new Michigan law aims to ensure that foster youth in the state receive an education that builds toward a high school diploma. The law, signed Thursday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, comes ...
Michigan agencies are helping foster youth navigate educational obstacles, and the state Board of Education called for new legislation.
Michigan is catastrophically failing to provide foster children with a quality education, delaying some teenagers’ graduation, advocates and educators said.
In 2020, there were 407,493 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 45% were in non-relative foster homes, 34% were in relative foster homes, 6% in institutions, 4% in group homes, 4% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in pre-adoptive homes, 1% had run away, and 2% in supervised independent living. [14]
Established in 1994, the Optimist House [4] is a program that focuses on six youth, ranging in ages 6–17 in a residential environment. With the support of many other agencies The Whaley's Children Center is able to provide these children with clothing, food, shelter and education.
The West publication is Michigan Compiled Laws Annotated (MCLA); the LexisNexis version is the Michigan Compiled Laws Service (MCLS). Until the year 2000, an alternate codification known as the Michigan Statutes Annotated (MSA), which differed from the MCL in both its organization and numbering system, was also in use. Until the discontinuation ...
In 1885, Michigan adopted the Public Act 130 of 1885, otherwise known as the Civil Rights Act, which stated “all persons within the jurisdiction of (the state) shall be entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, restaurants, eating-houses, barber shops, public conveyances on land and water, theatres, and all other places of public accommodation ...
LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's 2025 state budget proposes adding about 588 full-time employees to the payroll and would bring the authorized state workforce to its highest level in more than ...