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Michigan School Funding At Record High

But pension expenses rising even faster

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Former Gov. Granholm Left Teaching Job at Berkeley; Husband Dan Mulhern to Teach One Class in Fall

Granholm on unpaid leave for 22 months

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Detroit’s Top Employer No Longer a Government Entity

Rock Ventures takes the top jobs slot

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State Government Up to Its Eyeballs in Pension Debt

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Uber Disrupts Organized Labor and a Union may get More Dues Paying Members

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Private Schools Could Save Michigan $750 Million a Year

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Pay for New Ann Arbor Teachers Up 24-44 Percent in Four Years

Veteran teachers see slight decrease; payments to pension system soar

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Editorial

School Funding Is Complicated: One Part Goes Down But Total Goes Up

State's foundation grant to Ann Arbor goes down, but aid per pupil goes up

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Detroit Soccer Team Turns to Private Investment to Fund New Stadium

Working in Detroit: Private investment fueled by the MILE Act

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Analysis

As Municipal Golf Courses Lose Money, Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab

Lansing subsidizes its course to the tune of $24 per round

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Lawsuit Challenges Forced Payments for Tourism Bureaus

Business owner challenges 'the tourism mafia'

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Michigan Adequacy Study Shows the State Already Spends Plenty on Education

New study provides few clear-cut answers

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Analysis

Here's What the NY Times Got Wrong On Detroit Public Schools

Grab a cup of coffee, this will take a while

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How Bad Investment Rate Projections Cause Pension Underfunding

Municipal discount rate assumptions prove to be costly

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Academic Failure Forces Charter School Closure

When did this ever happen in a traditional public school?

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Editorial

More Mythical School Funding Cuts Reported

But even with no cuts, school boards face big challenges

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I Don’t Have Answers to These Questions

There aren't always easy answers to policy questions

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Commemorating the Repeal of the Stamp Act

The history of transaction taxes in America

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Union Contract Delivers Five-Year Salary Freeze for State’s Teacher of the Year

‘Unions call teachers professionals – but they are paid ... like assembly line workers’

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New Evidence: Film Incentives Still Don’t Work

Research from Michael Thom analyzes a variety of programs

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Deficits Loom, But Community College Launches Athletics Program Anyway

'We need to do something,' says president

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One Brighton Area Schools Administrator in Line for $58,000 Increase in Pay

Top administrator takes on third job title

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A $4.6 Billion Transit Millage Is a Tax Too Far for Detroit

Time to question the benefits of the Regional Transit Authority

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Vote Sends Lake Michigan Water Outside the Great Lakes Basin

Intergovernmental group gives OK for Waukesha to draw from Lake Michigan

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Right-To-Work For More? Michigan Income Growth the Nation’s Third-Fastest

State’s unemployment rate hits 15 year low

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