Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has created a new state department focused on promoting pre-kindergarten access and higher education in Michigan, shaking up the existing state education department that she does not control.
Whitmer’s office said Wednesday the new Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Achievement and Potential, or MiLEAP, will feature offices governing early childhood education, higher education and “education partnerships.”
The new department will lead statewide efforts to ensure that all young children “enter kindergarten with the tools and ability to succeed in school” and that “every Michigander has the skill certificate or degree they need to advance,” according…
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As a result of declining enrollments and budget shortages, DCP Alum Rock High School, a small charter school with roughly 200 students, will close its doors this summer, the Mercury News reported.
“I know once the board said ‘yes, we recommend closing it,’ we took a breath … and once we walked out that door, it was just (a blow),” Madison Christian Sumpter, a junior at Downtown College Prep Alum Rock High School, told the Mercury News.
Since the 2019-20 academic year, when the Covid-19 pandemic shook California school systems, DCP Alum Rock High School’s enrollment has decreased by 30%.…
Young children will have an extra year of education under a new plan from both the NSW and Victorian governments.
Key points:
Children would attend the new classes five days per week
Exact models are yet to be developed
Both states would deliver the program in preschool settings
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and his Victorian counterpart Daniel Andrews want to introduce the new year for four- and five-year-olds.
For NSW families, it will begin from 2030 and fall a year before what is known as kindergarten.
Victoria plans to start from 2025, with a year of new schooling before what…
Venice, 24th January 2023 – To mark the International Day of Education (24 January 2023), Prada Group and UNESCO are launching “Kindergarten of the Lagoon”, an innovative outdoor education experience for pre-school children in Venice, taking place today on Torcello Island.
Presented in May 2022 at Ca’ Corner della Regina – the Venetian headquarters of Fondazione Prada – Kindergarten of the Lagoon is part of SEA BEYONDa 2019 project led by Prada Group and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)aiming to promote education for the preservation of the sea and its resources.
Today’s program included outdoor activities throughout the morning for…