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One In Four Michigan School District Teachers Chronically Absent

That’s twice the rate of charter school teachers

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Former Congressman Dave Camp on Where Tax Reform is Heading in D.C.

An interview with the previous House Ways and Means Committee chairman

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Most Michigan Parents Satisfied with School Choice

Superintendent Whiston backtracks from 'backwards' claim

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Two Standards Of Justice For Sexual Assault Claims

Guidelines let a university deny accused access to a lawyer

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How a Private Arts Festival Thrives

ArtPrize is in its ninth year

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State Increases Fee For Public Data From $96 to $3,800

Information in question covers public school employees

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MLive Erroneously Reports New Flint Police Officers Get Just $11.25/Hour

News site confuses police academy trainee stipends with starting salaries of sworn officers

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Analysis

Meet The New Teachers Union Myths, Same As The Old Ones

New MEA leadership team promote old one’s false narratives in a ‘listening tour’

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Editorial

Ann Arbor Considering City Income Tax, Blames State

But city is collecting and spending more, not less

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Detroit Charter Schools Outperform District School Peers On State Tests

In most but not all grades and subjects, the difference was substantial

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Best Schools In Michigan Would Vanish If For-Profit Charters Were Banned

Two top-tier Democratic candidates for governor say that’s what they would do

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The Quiet Good News: US Economy Is Doing Really Well

Middle-class incomes are setting new highs, poverty is down, yet no one’s talking about it

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Analysis

More Inaccuracies in New York Times Attack on Michigan Charter Schools

Fourth in a series. NY Times article gets wrong the number of charters that engage for-profit managers

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New York Times Cherry-Picks Data In Takedown Of Michigan Charter Schools

Third in a series. NYT article excludes observations from nation’s most authoritative research

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New York Times Article, Critical of Charter Schools, Misses Key Point on School Funding

Despite media claims, districts in poor communities get more funding, not less

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Analysis

False Claims, Inaccuracies Rife in New York Times Article On Michigan Charter Schools

First in a series exposing NYT Magazine’s sloppy and/ or agenda-driven coverage

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Commentary

Flatten the Tax Code

Select tax breaks aren’t the answer to our tax problems

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DTE Declines Participation In Township Wind Farm Debate

State’s largest utility wanted just one consultant to give both sides

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Giving More Taxpayer Dollars to Universities Won’t Make Michigan More Educated

No link between state spending and educational attainment

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Post Labor Day Weekend Good Time for Tourism Talk

Lots to discuss with unofficial end of summer season

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Michigan Charter School Growth Modest Since Limits Lifted In 2011

Opponents predicted a charter ‘in every neighborhood’

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Legislators Shouldn’t Let a Political Celebrity Keep Them From Their Unfinished Business

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More Schools Than Ever Use Private-Sector Firms to Provide Support Services

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Cutting Federal Great Lakes Funding Would Not Be an Environmental and Economic Crisis

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Outgoing Leader Was Disastrous for Teachers Union

MEA lost tens of thousands of members and power under president Steve Cook

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