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Saginaw’s Lowest Performing Schools Get the Most Money

More funding won’t fix failing schools

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And Then There Were 28

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Michigan House Bill Would Impose Sanctions On 'Sanctuary Cities'

Ypsilanti, like Detroit and Ann Arbor, will forbid employees from asking a resident's immigration status

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Michigan Wins When Immigrants Face a Fair and Predictable System

Due process is an important part of an immigration system

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Michigan Taxpayers Don’t Need to Spend $4 Billion Annually on Infrastructure

Recent report has been misinterpreted

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Open Records Law: U-M Cashes The Check But Fails To Deliver The Info

In the private sector you can get in trouble for this kind of behavior

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The Pruitt EPA Nomination

When worldviews clash

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Detroit’s Soccer Stadium Should Stand on its Own

Stadiums are a bad investment for taxpayers

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'Unregulated' Charter Schools? 13 Things You Did Not Know

All the accountability of regular public schools – plus parents can pull their kids out any time

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How ‘Good Character’ Provisions Create Bad Outcomes

Barriers to employment can prevent some prisoners from reintegrating successfully

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Real Economy Creates 81 Jobs For Every 1 Promised by Business Subsidy Program

And don't look too hard at the record of those promises

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Michigan Environmental Office Repeatedly Stonewalls Record Requests

Agency connected to Flint water crisis has haphazard FOIA system

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Wasting No Time on Criminal Justice Reform

Senate introduces some important proposals on day one of 2017 session

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Public School Union Members Protest Their Own Union

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Michigan Forfeiture Laws Improving, But State Transparency Still Falls Behind

Under civil asset forfeiture, cops can keep a person's stuff even without a conviction or arrest

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What This Russian College Student Thinks About Bernie Sanders

'There is a perception that socialism is fair - It is not fair'

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State’s School Rankings Only Tell Part of Story

By failing to account for poverty, Michigan unfairly puts some schools at bottom

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Federal Park Staffers Defy Presidential Order, Tweet Climate Change Warnings

More CO2 in the atmosphere 'than at any time in the last 650,000 years,' said park's Twitter feed

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Editorial

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

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After Decades of Little Change, Why Are So Many States Going Right-to-Work?

Five years, five new worker freedom states

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Ann Arbor School Board Member Weighs In On $150 Merit Pay

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Ann Arbor Schools: First There Is No Teacher Merit Pay, Then There Is

Law requires districts to offer it, so effective educators get a 0.2 percent pay bump

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What Happens When the Michigan Economic Development Corporation Ends?

State could save millions by stopping ineffective subsidies

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Putting the Pieces in Place for School Choice

Big picture points to more hopeful action

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Rising Economy Increased Michigan Tax Revenue More Than Gas Tax Hike

With different priorities, Legislature could have spared motorists big road tax hikes

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