Launch Michigan is Bringing Student Voice to Policymaking
During Mackinac Policy Conference 2026, the Launch Michigan team took time away from the convening to meet with high school students and faculty about redesigning high school. Here’s what we learned.
Dual Enrollment Works - Now It’s Time to Scale It
Michigan has an opportunity right now to expand access to dual enrollment through investments in the state budget, and that is an important first step. But we also need to modernize and improve our policies so that access is more equitable and more student-centered. Right now, the system is still too confusing and too difficult for many students and families to navigate
Let Michigan make its own miracle with Every Child READS
Michigan is poised to raise its literacy rigor and make a significant difference in the lives of its preK-12 students. While some boast of the Mississippi Miracle of literacy improvement, many are not aware that Michigan’s stage was set in 2016 for a similar outcome – that all students could learn to read by middle elementary and use that skill to succeed in the grades beyond.
Building Michigan Graduation Standards Differently: A Policy Created by the Many, Not the Few
For the past several years, we’ve been working to develop a new high school graduation standard for Michigan students. Instead of advancing a single perspective and fighting to get it implemented, we’ve focused on bringing many perspectives together from the very beginning.
