Nearly three out of every four Michigan high school students are unprepared for college or a career.
The year before Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took office, 65.4% of Michigan students could not meet the threshold on standardized tests for college- or career-readiness, and that figure has since swelled to 71.9% in 2024, according to a 2025 Kids Count data book produced by the Michigan League for Public Policy.
The data is one of many startling statistics illustrating the steady decline of education in the Great Lakes State since 2019, with other key metrics showing about 60% of third-graders cannot read at grade level.
Since Whitmer took office, our schools have gotten worse instead of better.
