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'Simon Says': Teacher Union Toys with Members Wanting Out, Demands Requests Go to 'Stealth' P.O. Box

Judge has already ruled the one-month window MEA allows for resignations to be illegal

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Lansing School District Poised to Privatize Facilities Management Despite Union Outcry

District will save $1.1 million annually if they make the move

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Have Schools Faced 'Seemingly Permanent Funding Cuts'?

Ann Arbor Public Schools has received an extra $23.5 million since 2010-11

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Pension System Costs the Monster That Ate School Funding Increases

Retirement costs have almost doubled in recent years

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Pension Costs Eating Up Extra School Money

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Politicians Misrepresent Road Funding Bills to Promote Tax Hike

Slower spending growth is not a 'cut'

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Teacher Quits, Rips GOP ‘Goons’ — Who Gave Her District $5.3 Million Extra Despite Fewer Students

Teacher claims to ‘barely scrape by’ on $63,100 salary

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U-M Economist Forecasts Drop In School-Aged Children To Continue 'At a Very Rapid Rate'

Michigan's K-12 schools already have seen enrollment declines for 12 consecutive years

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Michigan Grapples With Fewest Number of Students In Decades

Enrollment at lowest point since state kept track back to 1977

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School District Gives Teachers Raises, Has Deficit, Blames State that Gave Them an Extra $5 Million

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Local Governments Look To Cash In On Commercial Truck Inspections

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State's Largest Teachers Union Fails to Disclose 30 Percent of Its Income

MEA leaves $38.3M of income to speculation

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How Unions, Districts Hold Back Michigan's Best Teachers

State 'teacher of the year' finalist earns less than $45,000

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School District Once Gave $1 to Top Teachers; Now Spreads Merit Bonus to 99 Percent of Teachers

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No Accountability? 30 Percent of Detroit's Charter Schools Have Closed

22 charters have shuttered since 1994

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Michigan Anti-Fracking Ballot Proposal Would Limit All Drilling

'More information can be found at Hogwarts' than in the film Gasland

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Most Michigan School Districts Privatize Services

Lansing looking to join the growing trend

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State Supreme Court Ruling: State Employees are Free to Exercise Right-to-Work

Court rules 4-3 that Civil Service Commission can't require involuntary payments to union

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Teachers Making Over $80,000 Say They Need Second Jobs 'To Make Ends Meet'

Educators say they cannot 'survive' on one income

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Grand Rapids' Mayoral Candidates Spar Over City's Financial Health

One claims city debt is $533 per resident, another says it’s $5,318

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Paid Leave Mandate Raises Stakes in 'Punitive' Move Against Employers

Group behind move to hike minimum wage now eyeing paid sick time in Michigan

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Michigan Schools Improving Financially as Dire Predictions Shown to be False

Past claims haven't materialized

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Expelling Mankind Won't Make Earth A Paradise

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Cut Corporate Welfare Before Social Welfare to Fund Roads

Michigan debates spending MEDC or EITC money on transportation

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Bipartisan Reading Bill Not Just 'Read or Flunk'

Prescribes early intervention for struggling readers

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