Report: 72% of Michigan Students Considered Not ‘College Ready’

Recent data from the Michigan League for Public Policy reveals nearly three-quarters of Michigan high school students are unprepared for college based on standardized test benchmarks, despite increased education spending. Michigan students are performing below the national average and learning less than children in other Midwest states, with particularly poor results in fourth-grade math. While high school graduation rates have improved, college readiness continues to decline, prompting Governor Gretchen Whitmer to acknowledge the state's unacceptable situation of higher-than-average per-pupil investment yielding bottom-tier educational outcomes.