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Friday, January 19, 2024 12:00 AM |
Right To Read Screening Launch Event
All Michigan students deserve the freedom to learn - and it starts with a foundation of reading. Children need schools to prepare them for a diverse and rapidly changing world.
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Friday, January 19, 2024 12:00 AM |
Freedom to Read Legislation Update
Just when Michigan House members were set to introduce the Freedom to Read legislation in November, we stepped back and are taking a pause. Why? In the course of about two months, residents in the state of Michigan experienced a pause in the legislative cycle due to sine die; we saw two House Democrats elected in November to mayoral positions leaving the House evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, which also is leading to a new election being scheduled for these two districts in late April; and adding fuel to the fire, seven of the newly adopted House districts in SE Michigan were challenged and must be redrawn before any further elections can take place.
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Friday, December 22, 2023 12:00 AM |
Books Save Lives Act Introduced To US Congress
The Books Save Lives Act would ensure trained librarians in every school and classify book bans as federal civil rights violations.
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Friday, December 22, 2023 12:00 AM |
Take Action! Help Advance Education Research - New Bill in Congress
The Advancing Research in Education Act (AREA) S. 3392, was passed by the HELP Committee on December 12.
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Friday, November 24, 2023 12:00 AM |
Public Opinion Polling Update
As the MI Right to Read paid advertising campaign rolls to an end, MLA commissioned a single question in the EPIC-MRA omnibus public opinion poll (600 sample – Error ±4.0%) in early November. We wanted to see the change in voter perception about support for state legislation to protect the right to read from March 2023 to now.
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