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      <description>Michigan has a shortage of public school counselors, and is next to the bottom nationally in student-counselor ratios.</description>
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      <description>A new report said Michigan has the lowest professional-to-student ratio of all states and pointed to the particular staffing needs of rural schools.</description>
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      <description>There’s been a guilty plea in connection with fraudulent claims to a fund set up by Michigan State University for the treatment of sexual assault…</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:20:28 GMT</pubDate>
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