Black children in Michigan are performing worse than their peers nationally in every metric measured, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s new Race for Results report.
The January report shows an overall nationwide failure to equip all children to succeed, with policy choices and lack of support for families resulting in dire outcomes for Black, Latino and Native American children.
Monique Stanton with the Michigan League for Public Policy says Michigan’s Black children are far behind their national peers when it comes to graduating high school on time, completing an associate’s degree and fourth-grade reading proficiency.
“State budgets have gone a long way making sure schools are sufficiently funded, that’s on the heels of decades of disinvestment in education, and that is compounded by a history of discriminatory policies rooted in racism around housing, property tax limits and local funding for neighborhoods.”
Michigan did show positives with an increase of American Indian and Hispanic students graduating high school on time, more than by other students in Michigan and also by their national peers.
