Michigan Wants to Fine Schools for Indian Mascots But Not for Violating State Laws
School contracts violate laws related to racial preferences, right-to-work, and more Read more
Extra Caution Needed On 'Average' Teacher Salary Claims
It's easy to paint a false picture of decline even when everyone's getting raises Read more
Close To Immortal: Michigan Won't Close Failing Public Schools After All
Parents may not be impressed by the alternative Read more
How Many College Bureaucrats Does It Take To Answer A Records Request?
U-M employs three highly paid administrators Read more
Obscure Websites and Protecting Great Lakes
Big pot of federal money attracts attention Read more
Teacher Making $53,000 Says She Could Earn More as a Waitress
Also receives pension and generous health benefits Read more
Michigan's Largest School Districts Breaking Teacher Pay Law
12 of 20 ignore law completely, another 6 pay lip service Read more
Who Watches the Union’s Fake News Watchers?
'Where is the evidence?' A very good question for teachers union Read more
School Pension Iceberg: Beware What’s Under Budget Surface
Above or below the line, pension costs come out of education budgets Read more
'Tax Cut Fever' In Lansing? Spending Increases Show Opposite
Spending fever hard to break Read more
School Board Says DeVos 'Unfit' For Advocating Policies It Practices
East Lansing schools big outsourcers; but board attacks Education Secretary pick for pro-privatization stance Read more
Rising Economy Increased Michigan Tax Revenue More Than Gas Tax Hike
With different priorities, Legislature could have spared motorists big road tax hikes Read more
Incomes Rise in Right-to-Work Michigan; Officials Project More To Come
Opponents' 'right-to-work for less' predictions fall flat Read more
President of Nation's Largest Teachers Union Got 23 Percent Pay Bump Last Year
Michigan teachers contributed Read more
Another Charter School Critic Misses the Mark
Accountability? Failed charter schools are closed; no record of same for district schools Read more
New York Times Wrong: Detroit Charter Schools Didn't 'Desert' Kids, the City Did
Mayor and city council banned selling shuttered schools to charters serving neediest children Read more
Teachers Union Said They Were Done Losing Members (They’ve Lost 17K Since)
MEA membership is down to 90,000 from 117,000 before right-to-work Read more
ACLU Joins DeVos Assaults By Ignoring Inconvenient Charter School Truths
Charters do better, and outcompete conventional unionized schools when parents can choose Read more
School Budgets, Senate Pension Reforms Under Attack From Pension System
System costs Birmingham schools 60 percent more, but managers say don’t touch it Read more
School Choice Opponents Recycle Myths as Trump Picks DeVos for Education
No myth: Most children in charters learn more than peers in district schools Read more
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