Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Questions, kinks and complications are bound to come up when policy gets applied in real life, as has been the case in the state's ...

Michigan’s free pre-K program continues to attract more families while being one of only a handful of states to meet all national quality standards. At the same time, it's still not achieving state ...

Oakland County parents will now have more access to free early childhood education through the state’s Great Start Readiness Program. The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and ...

As GSRP expands in school districts, families find themselves lacking summer care options come the end of the school year Experts say school-based GSRP doesn't meet the summer care and educational ...

Around 9,000 more kids have been enrolled in free, universal state-funded pre-K as of October 2025 than at this time last year, though an updated enrollment percentage has not yet been calculated.

TRAVERSE CITY — Interlochen Community School will reopen this fall — only it will serve a different purpose than it did five years ago when district officials shuttered the elementary school. Traverse ...

These four-year-olds may not have had the chance to be in a state-funded, high-quality preschool two years ago. Since then, extra funding from the state has let 21,000 more into the Great Start ...

Parents have questions about how Michigan's free Pre-K for All program works. We've answered them with the help of Michigan ...

Questions, kinks and complications are bound to come up when policy gets applied in real life, as has been the case in the state's roll out of its free pre-K program. Many of the school district ...