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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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And Then There Were 28

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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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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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