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Do High Tax States Grow Faster?

This Democratic state senator thinks they might

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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

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Extra Caution Needed On 'Average' Teacher Salary Claims

It's easy to paint a false picture of decline even when everyone's getting raises

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Close To Immortal: Michigan Won't Close Failing Public Schools After All

Parents may not be impressed by the alternative

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How Many College Bureaucrats Does It Take To Answer A Records Request?

U-M employs three highly paid administrators

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Obscure Websites and Protecting Great Lakes

Big pot of federal money attracts attention

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Teacher Making $53,000 Says She Could Earn More as a Waitress

Also receives pension and generous health benefits

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Michigan's Largest School Districts Breaking Teacher Pay Law

12 of 20 ignore law completely, another 6 pay lip service

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Who Watches the Union’s Fake News Watchers?

'Where is the evidence?' A very good question for teachers union

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School Pension Iceberg: Beware What’s Under Budget Surface

Above or below the line, pension costs come out of education budgets

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'Tax Cut Fever' In Lansing? Spending Increases Show Opposite

Spending fever hard to break

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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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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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Washington Post Bashes Detroit Charters Citing Study That Praises Detroit Charters

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Most Charters Perform 'Significantly Better' Than District Schools on Core Subjects

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Yesterday's Pension Underfunding Means Fewer Raises For Today's Teachers

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Incomes Rise in Right-to-Work Michigan; Officials Project More To Come

Opponents' 'right-to-work for less' predictions fall flat

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President of Nation's Largest Teachers Union Got 23 Percent Pay Bump Last Year

Michigan teachers contributed

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Another Charter School Critic Misses the Mark

Accountability? Failed charter schools are closed; no record of same for district schools

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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

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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

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ACLU Joins DeVos Assaults By Ignoring Inconvenient Charter School Truths

Charters do better, and outcompete conventional unionized schools when parents can choose

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School Budgets, Senate Pension Reforms Under Attack From Pension System

System costs Birmingham schools 60 percent more, but managers say don’t touch it

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The New York Times’ Comprehension Problem on Detroit Charters

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School Choice Opponents Recycle Myths as Trump Picks DeVos for Education

No myth: Most children in charters learn more than peers in district schools

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