Education

LANSING, MI (AP)--   Some students will get new Michigan Educational Assessment program math scores after a problem with some questions on the exam. 

The Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News report new scores will be for grades 4, 7 and 8, as well as an exam for special education students in grades 3-8.

The tests included questions that state officials had promised schools wouldn't be included. 

LANSING, MI (AP)--   Governor Rick Snyder has signed legislation that will allow schools with too many snow days to avoid having to schedule extra days in June.  

The Republican governor signed the bill Thursday.  It means that school districts that have more than six snow days this year can have longer days for the rest of the school year instead of adding days at the end of the year.

Snyder says the bill will help schools faced with many snow days this year, especially in Northern and Western Michigan.

LANSING, MI (AP)--   Michigan schools with too many snow days may avoid having to schedule extra days in June. But students still may not be happy with the remedy. 

The House gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would let schools schedule longer days. It passed, 106-1, and now goes to Governor Rick Snyder.

Supporters say the change is needed because some schools in northern Michigan had more than the maximum six snow days.

LANSING, MI (AP)--   Michigan teachers' performance would play a bigger role in the amount they get in their paychecks under a proposal being debated in the Republican-controlled state House. 

A bill recently debated in the House Education Committee would make teacher job performance the primary factor in determining pay. It would render meaningless years on the job and some advanced degrees.

Under current law, job performance only has to be one factor in teacher pay, along with the number of years in the classroom and achievement of advanced degrees.

MARQUETTE, MI -

The N-M-U Board of Trustees met Friday to consider several issues including the university’s overall budget and room-and-board.

 The board authorized the university to continue in 2013-14 at a budget level no greater than the current year—with the exception of increases required by negotiated union contracts—until the state’s appropriation is determined and a new general fund budget is approved.