Michigan is mandating an increase of 10 days to the 180-day school year by 2006.
Schools can add the time any way they choose.
Or maybe because of it. A committee appointed to suggest changes in the test, which as many as 80 percent of the students in some districts refuse to take, recommends changing the scoring levels that determine students' exam ratings. Agriculture experts in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties had an ambitious gypsy moth spraying program this year and are gearing up for another battle in 1999. For Dale Smart, dressing up in old clothes and pretending to have been born in a past century began with a canoe. A replica of an 18th century birchbark canoe, to be exact.