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State Superintendent Mike Flanagan shares a holiday message for families to inspire kids to dream, imagine, create, explore? and think!

MDE's Culture of Reading promotes early childhood learning and development by getting all Michigan children reading proficiently by the end of third grade.

The Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) test of student performance in five subjects in grades three through nine.

Current Topics

• Culture of Reading Program Takes Shape; Needy Kids to Get Books and Reading Instruction

• Michigan Students Still To Receive Free College Entrance Exam

• Library of Michigan to Open the Second Saturday of Each Month

• Fourth Grade Reading Scores Improve for the Fourth Consecutive Year

• State Board of Education Encourages Schools to Include Cesar Chavez into Social Studies Curriculum

• Three Michigan Schools Receive 2014 Excellence in Practice Awards

Michigan Educator Certification System - MOECS

Mich. Online Educator Certification System

MOECS is a secure web-based system that allows educators to register and create private accounts and have access to all of their certification data, apply for certificates and endorsements, and renew their certificates

State Aid / School Finance

Guidance on issues of school finance and tax policy, public school district financial accounting, various financing mechanisms available to school districts,and information on pupil accounting statutes and rules.

Michigan Education Information System

The MEIS User Management is a security system, implemented and used with various Michigan Department of Education (MDE) and Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) applications.