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Teacher And Local Union Official Gets $103K/Year, Says State Should Give Teachers More

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Schools To Get $6.1B From COVID Money; Teachers Union Still Opposes Tax Cut

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With $600 Million From State, GM Must Only Retain Battery Car Jobs For Six Months

Somehow such legal fine-print rarely appears in media reports on these taxpayer handouts Read more

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Bloomberg News Credits Whitmer For Economic Recovery From Harms Her COVID Policies Created

And it’s easier to paint a positive picture when the worst job losses are ignored Read more

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Debt-Ridden Flint Schools To Give Each Employee $22k In Federal COVID-19 Money

Superintendent says district can’t use $156.1 million from feds to pay off debt Read more

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Fewer Students, More Teachers On Payroll, And Officials Still Claim: ‘Teacher Shortage’

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Bloomberg Claims Michigan No. 1 In ‘Economic Health Improvement,’ So Why Are We No. 40 On Jobs?

Seemingly arbitrary collection of unrelated and problematic statistics tells an implausible story Read more

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Michigan Public School Enrollment Rose In 2021-22 After 11 Years Of Decline

But the actual number of students is still down compared to pre-pandemic 2018-19 Read more

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Whitmer's Proposed Spending Hikes State's General Fund 50% Over Three Years

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Whitmer: Truckers’ COVID Blockade ‘Incredibly Damaging To Our Economy’ — Like Lockdowns?

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State Is Spending More Under Whitmer — But Not On Fixing Roads

State transportation dollars actually down this year after inflation Read more

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Teacher Warns of 'Pandemic' Shortage of Teachers -- Though His District's Count Is Going Up

Crestwood added plenty of teachers while student population barely grew Read more

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Suspended Ferris State Prof: Second Amendment Gives Scared White Men Right To Shoot Blacks

Placed on paid leave after sending students obscenity-laced video Read more

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Granholm Tax Break Scheme Appears To Be Just A Shiny Object In The Bigger Picture

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Alleged Tax-Cut Fever In Lansing Hasn't Slowed State Spending

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Teacher Claimed Right-To-Work Would Make Workers Powerless, But He’s Getting 42% More Since 2014

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U-M Mandated Vaccines In July To Control Epidemic; They Didn’t

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Superintendent: No Kitty Litter Placed In School Restrooms For Students Who Identify As Animals

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Little Evidence Of Critical Race Theory In Detroit Schools? Superintendent Says District ‘Deeply Using’ It

Nonprofit’s claim contradicts its own previous report Read more

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Midwest Threatened With Power Outages When Weather Turns Cold

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Billions In Federal COVID Bucks And Detroit Schools Can’t Provide Some Pencils?

The story that teachers pay out-of-pocket for supplies even less plausible than usual Read more

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Michigan Hospitals Holding Their Own Against COVID Surge

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More People Working In Public Schools Since Claims Of Shortages Began

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A Rarity: This Teacher Shortage Report Has Some Merit

Media loves making the claim, even when wrong; numbers really are down in this district, though Read more

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Taking Lives Indiscriminately?

Gov. Whitmer suggests COVID an equal opportunity killer; data on victims’ ages indicates otherwise Read more

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