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Has the Ivory Tower Lost its Luster? Rethinking Higher Education in Michigan

… dozens of private and trade schools. These help develop lifelong … country? Michigan taxpayers are spending more on higher education … decade ago. State taxpayers spend $2.7 billion on higher education, … neighboring states. Michigan spends more than Massachusetts — … spite of, or because of this, spending, tuition and debt have all …

From crisis to choice: A modern history of education reform in America

A review of ‘The Parent Revolution’ by Corey DeAngelis

… the Radicals Ruining Our Schools,” to American Federation of … unions and their allies (in schools and legislatures), and the … Taxpayers got ripped off too. Spending on public schools skyrocketed, with little evidence … to a dramatic increase in school choice.   Test scores plummeted …

College sports’ march toward unionized madness

It isn’t the solution some people claim it to be

… solving? Speaking of good players, will unions block them from transferring schools? The players will be tied to union contracts that could stop them from … because, after all, unions inevitably want money to pay their leaders and spend on politics. They may draw money from scholarships, leaving less money for …

Lessons from COVID-19 school relief spending

Schools spend most emergency funds after the emergency is over

… Center details how public schools in Michigan spent the $6 billion … data reported directly by school districts to assess how they … dropping loads of cash on school districts during an emergency. … the context of overall school spending. Starting in the school … easy for districts to quickly spend money in new ways, such as …

Taking an inventory of my tax bill

Here’s what I found in counting the ways I’m taxed

… institutions, ranging from the local school district to the regional school district to the community college. … was around 1.0% of my remaining spending last year. What was surprising in … a billion dollars in pork-barrel spending, allocated in the dead of night. …

Major Thomas Jenks: A Veteran’s Legacy of Service and Support

… siblings and attended Meridian schools before joining the ROTC program … undertook a career in education, spending 20 years teaching in the … Cleveland’s Collinwood High School from 1995-2014. His exemplary … substitute teacher for the local schools in Bath. When he isn’t working … like it when he arrives at school on a Harley. Throughout his …

Michigan’s largest debt declines

Gov. Whitmer asks to put less into the pension system

… shortfall in funding for public school employee pension debt is down … law requires that all public school employees, including community … 396,000 people covered by the school system, including 152,000 … that it has turned public school employees into the state’s … by $670 million in order to spend the money elsewhere. Deferring …

New Report Shows How Michigan Schools Spent COVID Funds

Nearly half spent on employees

… report found that Michigan school districts spent their Covid-19 funds similarly to how they spend their general budget, with … Public Policy, breaks down how school districts have spent $2.5 … 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. In an effort to help … amounts of money to public schools across the country from March …

Covid Cash

How Michigan Schools Spent Their Extra Pandemic Funds

… money to American public schools to address the challenges … government to analyze how public schools in Michigan have reported spending their Covid relief funds. … information covers the three school years that ended in 2020, … 2022. The analysis finds that school districts reported spending …

No free lunch: Students aren’t embracing Michigan’s no-cost school meals

There’s been a mere 8% increase in students eating taxpayer-paid school lunches in Michigan

… income students in public schools. The Legislature added $160 million to the school aid budget to provide free … for all 1.3 million public school students in Michigan. Whitmer … story. In 2016 the state’s schools fed an average of 784,195 … benefiting from the extra state spending on subsidized school lunches …