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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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'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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Michigan Environmental Office Repeatedly Stonewalls Record Requests

Agency connected to Flint water crisis has haphazard FOIA system

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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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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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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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Michigan College Busts Students For Giving Out U.S. Constitutions Without Permit

Asking passers-by if they 'like freedom and liberty' deemed 'too provocative'

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Speed Limits in Michigan Going Up

Standards tightened to restrict imposing artificially low speed limits

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Lansing School District Ignores Law Requiring Teacher Merit Pay

Even after seven years, district 'does not have a merit pay system,' says spokesman

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Michigan School Districts: We Have No Ineffective Teachers

The law requires annual ratings, but is murky on how to do it

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Had Hillary Won, Granholm And Not DeVos Would Be Prepping for Confirmation

Report suggests former Michigan governor topped Clinton’s education secretary short-list

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The Law's the Law – Except When It Says Great Teachers Get Merit Pay

School districts avoiding the law that requires them to pay better educators more

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Why Trade Schools Matter to Detroit

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Be Wise in Deciding How to Spend Taxpayer Funds on Infrastructure

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Some Budget Ideas for 2017

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Number Getting Unemployment Checks Lowest In At Least 30 Years In Michigan

Rising employment coincided with cut in maximum number of weeks getting checks

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Harvard Study Says Michigan Elections Less Democratic Than Cuba, North Korea, Iran

Former Federal Elections Commission Chairman calls study ‘absurd’

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Now People Won't Have to Pay a Bond to Recover Their Stuff from Police

Governor signs bill to eliminate 10 percent civil forfeiture fee

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In the Big Ten Conference of Migration Trends, Michigan Tops a Weak Division

No fans cheering 'we're No. 26' nationwide, but state was dead last not long ago

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U-M Prof Hints Scholars Down On School Choice, But Twice As Many Optimistic

Painting false pictures with raw stats

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Government, Heavy Industry No Longer Dominate Michigan Economy

Displaced by medicine, education, professional services

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