Critic Cites Performance In Other States To Attack Michigan Charters
Implies that charters with 9 percent of state enrollment drag down the other 1.5 million students
Detroit Schools’ Annual Budget Balanced With Emergency Bailout Money
$10M in so-called state transition-cost dollars helping keep the district out of deficit
Productive Skills, Not College Degrees, Key to Economic Prosperity
A critique of ‘talent mercantilism’
Why There’s a Revolving Prison Door
New research suggests that strict parole rules contribute to inflated prison populations
How to Solve Government Employee Retiree Health Insurance Costs
Freeze salary schedules until health insurance is fully funded
Change Careers to Teaching? Take the SAT
New bureaucratic rule constricts educator pipeline
Another Pension ‘Spike’ For Outgoing Teachers Union President
$4k added to the $92,000 annual lifetime boost he previously orchestrated
Unions Complicit in Retirement Benefit Crisis
But trying to shift the blame to Lansing anyway
Ex-Con Working as Nurse Gets Denied License When Moving to Michigan
Great Lakes State has some of the most stringent laws in the nation
Michigan’s Largest Teachers Union Has Lost 25 Percent of Its Members
MEA’s decline much greater than its ‘worst fears’ after right-to-work allowed teachers to leave
Assessing Michigan’s Alleged Teacher Shortage
Over 100,000 qualified teachers are not employed by a public school
Michigan’s Largest Teachers Union Funds Leftist Activist Group
Michigan Education Association gave Progress Michigan $71,000 this year
Are Any Left? 100 Years Of ‘Michigan Teacher Shortage’ Headlines
Media keeps publishing the dubious claim, so public school establishment keeps repeating it
State Ends Fiscal Year With Surplus After 12 House Republicans Defeat Tax Cut
Tax cut proponent: It shows Michigan government can afford to take less
Taxpayers Shouldn’t Subsidize High Income Housing
Millions going to build luxury developments
Accountability? Nothing Appears Closer To Eternal Than A Failed Detroit School
Watch what they do, not what they say — or even what the law requires
Union Head Questions Corporate Pay, Ignores Own Officers’ Huge Salaries
Teachers union president gets $492k in 2017, after years of pay freeze for teachers
No Arrest — But Cops Took And Kept His $2,035 Anyway
Your assets are presumed guilty in Michigan; legislation would change that
Thanksgiving Day: More Than Football and Turkey
Made an official holiday in 1941, Thanksgiving Day has a long history
Bills Would Ban Keeping Taxpayer Handouts To Corporations Secret
A handful of companies are getting billions, but citizens are forbidden to know who or how much
How Right-to-Work and the End of the 'Dues Skim' Killed the SEIU in Michigan
Membership, revenue and political spending plummet
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Virtual Justice: Using New Technology in the Criminal Justice System
It can work if used judiciously
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