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Michigan's $6.3 Billion Broken Promise

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State Pays More as Community College Tuition Rises, Enrollment Falls

State pension underfunding expense socks colleges; professor questions value for taxpayer dollars

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How an 'Ineffective' Teacher Gets Third-Highest Pay Level

Law requires merit pay, but seniority and college credits actually set it

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Michigan's 'Temporary' 2007 Tax Hike Took $770 Million Last Year

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Official ‘Bias Response’ Enforcers Stifle Michigan Universities

Who corrects bias of the university’s ‘bias response team’?

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Michigan's Worldwide Trading Economy

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State Superintendent Claims First-Year Teachers Make $28K—We Can't Find Them

CapCon has reviewed hundreds of contracts; never seen salaries that low

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Scofflaw School Districts Ignore Merit Pay Law, Face No Sanctions

State Education Department: We have no authority to enforce this

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Number of Michigan Millionaires Grows 25-Fold

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Teacher Melts Down, Disrupts, Curses, Quits, Walks — And Files To Get Job Back

Firing problem teachers was even harder before 2011 reforms

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Loans From Corporate Welfare Agency Are, Like Its Job Promises, 'Uncollectible'

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Detroit Father Turns Boxing Interest Into Youth Enrichment Program

This example of civil society says 'books before boxing'

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State Budget Growth Outpaces Inflation

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Higher Emissions Ahead: Closing Nuclear Plant Here Means More CO2

Splitting atoms produces 25.5 percent of Michigan's electricity

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Michigan School Pension Costs Almost Quadrupled

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Officials Shortchange School Pension Fund 7th Year In Row

Author of pension study says management making up its own rules

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The Job No One Wants

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A Better Way to Rank Schools

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Government Funding of Sports Arenas is an Expensive Psychological Boost

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Where did the Money from Higher Transportation Taxes Go?

A bigger budget means more money for programs beyond road repair

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Detroit Window Washer Tax

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Delayed Payment On Granholm Early Pension Gambit Raises Costs To Taxpayers

Michigan pension office helped pass costs to future taxpayers

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Union Enlists a Mayor to Endorse Fabulist Claims on Teacher Pay

Poverty-level pay? Only if a first-year teacher has seven dependents

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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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