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Thanks To Union Contracts, Recent Teachers Of The Year Saw Stagnant Pay

Once a teacher hits top of the scale, pay hikes stop or slow

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Look Behind The Raw Numbers On Michigan Police Pay

In one Kent County city, officers make almost 50% more than average household

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River Rouge Not A Large School District, But Superintendent Paid $258k

There's a discrepancy between the amount reported by the district and by pension officials

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Whitmer Coy On ‘Medicare For All,’ But Went Extra Mile For Obamacare’s Medicaid

A parliamentary maneuver that raised eyebrows

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Data Shows Michigan Economy Doing Well, AP Calls It ‘Only Slight Growth’

Headline points to Trump

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Renewables Get Far More Federal Subsidies Than Coal

Taxpayers paid $3.5 billion to wind and solar, $1.26 billion to coal

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Teachers Union Not Really Against Student Learning And Better Teachers, Right?

Look beyond the label on resolutions defeated at NEA’s annual meeting

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Teachers Union: Yes to Reparations, No to Impeachment, Yes to Abortion

NEA’s annual conference resolutions are revealing

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‘Unequal Funding,’ Claims Report — And Leaves Out Major Share Of School Revenue

Report on financial disparities ignores federal funds that help poor communities

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Michigan Marijuana Offenders Languishing In Prison? Bills Would Change That

Just-signed New York law automatically clears records of past offenders

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Politician's Loose Talk Paints Flawed Picture On Budget

Low-ball state revenue claims get some scrutiny

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Michigan Utility Customers Subsidizing High-End Electric Cars

State’s big utilities giving subsidies for plug-in charging stations

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City Officials Threaten Criminal Charges Against Developers In Land Dispute

‘They’re trying to hold us hostage,’ says one

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Top 10 Michigan School Superintendents All Get Above $200,000

Life at the top of public education

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Power Outages? Utility Renewables Schemes May Mean ‘Get Used To It’

Michigan’s big utilities also plan for you to just have less to use

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Michigan Schools Serving Poor Cities Get More Funding

An inconvenient fact for some public school interests

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Teachers Union Will Promote Concept Of ‘White Fragility’

NEA: ‘White supremacy culture has fashioned a social norm ...’

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Green Groups, Politicians, Media, Love Electric Cars, Consumers Cold On Them

Ford sales of plug-in electric cars down from 3,000 a month to less than 500

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Union Twists Man’s Inspirational Bootstrap Story Into Smear

‘Misguided human beings . . . using other people as pawns’

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Get A Haircut, Kid? Forget About It

Teachers union resolves to oppose 'hair discrimination'

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Teachers Union: Migrants Held In ‘Concentration Camps’

NEA says its goal is ‘ending the criminalization of border crossings’

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State Supreme Court Says Troy’s Inspection Fee Profits Illegal

City charging more than inspections’ actual cost

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Happy Days Are Here For State’s Road Builders And Workers

Jobs and pay on the upswing

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Preferred Gender Pronouns Important To Nation’s Largest Teachers Union

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Which Comes First, The Kids’ Futures Or Their School District’s?

At Benton Harbor and elsewhere, some school establishment voices can seem to lose sight

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