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Utility crews are still hard at work in Michigan getting customers reconnected to power lines following the devastating storms of last week. One of the areas literally devastated by the storms is the rural area around the Village of Reading in Hillsdale County.

The former Education Secretary is critical of the veto by Governor Whitmer to prevent parents from having access to an important tool to use to help their kids improve their reading skills.

Kalamazoo Public Safety officers are at again with story time. This time KPS Lt. Danielle Guilds reads "Peanut Butter and Cupcake" written by author and illustrator Terry Border.

Renk: This is another example of the level of intelligence that we are seeing in the...

Renk: This is also a story about a great teacher who...

Renk: By the way what the Whitmer administration believes is needed to help this literacy problem in Michigan is...

A bill in Michigan to improve childhood literacy is moving forward in the Michigan Legislature after a committee reached a compromise on the controversial provisions Michigan should hold back students who fail to read proficiently by third grade...

It has just been reported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in their Kids Count report that 81% of Michigan's low income 4th graders and 69% of all students are not reading proficiently.
Also in the report, Early Reading Proficiency in the United States the author states, "Michigan is ju…