Unionizing Charter Schools Goe...

Dec 19, 2018 by

Unionizing Charter Schools Goes Nowhere In Michigan

The failure may explain why Democrats oppose charters By Dawson Bell – The unionization rate of teachers at public charter...

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Oakland ISD Head Says School F...

Sep 24, 2018 by

Oakland ISD Head Says School Funding Broken; Not At Oakland ISD

Head of midlevel management and school service agency paid $250k in 2017 By Tom Gantert – The superintendent of an intermediate...

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100 Percent Of This District’s...

Sep 13, 2018 by

100 Percent Of This District’s Teachers Got Merit Bonus

Teachers’ reward for school district’s notional compliance with state requirement? $1 each By Tom Gantert – Kari Groll is a...

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99 Teachers In This District D...

May 3, 2018 by

99 Teachers In This District Do Union Work on Taxpayers’ Dime — 1 of every 15

Statewide, 177 school employees paid by their districts to do union work at taxpayer expense By Tom Gantert – As a Utica...

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Michigan’s Top School Pension ...

Apr 5, 2018 by

Michigan’s Top School Pension Payouts

These retired school officials collect more than twice the average teacher’s current pay By Tom Gantert – During Barbara...

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Detroit Schools Will Sell to a...

Mar 3, 2018 by

Detroit Schools Will Sell to a Prison, But Not a Charter School

Moves criticized by parents and community members By Ben DeGrow – After spending months fighting to prevent the sale of an...

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Michigan PTA Needs Refresher O...

Mar 1, 2018 by

Michigan PTA Needs Refresher On Law Governing Charter School Admissions

Conventional public school establishment’s ally gives House Education Committee bad information The House Fiscal Agency is a...

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Flint Schools Hanging On After...

Feb 13, 2018 by

Flint Schools Hanging On After 77 Percent Enrollment Decline Since 2003

In this district, teachers really did take pay cuts By Tom Gantert – Erroneous reports of Michigan teachers taking pay cuts...

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Stakes High In Special Educati...

Jan 31, 2018 by

Stakes High In Special Education Disputes, With Legal Costs To Match

Utica Schools have spent almost $300,000 defending treatment of one student By Evan Carter – Over a five-year period, Utica...

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Detroit Public Schools Super R...

Jan 10, 2018 by

Detroit Public Schools Super Responds To ‘Charter Students Outperform’ Report

Vitti: We serve more special ed students, charters no silver bullet, state hasn’t helped A Michigan Capitol Confidential report...

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The ‘50 Students Per Classroom...

Dec 15, 2017 by

The ‘50 Students Per Classroom’ Myth: Detroit Class Sizes Are Normal

Only about 30 of district’s 13,000 academic classrooms have excessive student-teacher ratios By Tom Gantert – For years,...

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Charters Schools ‘Segregated’?...

Dec 13, 2017 by

Charters Schools ‘Segregated’? Children Only Attend If Their Parents Choose

That’s a challenge for opponents dredging up invalid Jim Crow associations By Tom Gantert – For years, the most common...

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Are Any Left? 100 Years Of ‘Mi...

Dec 11, 2017 by

Are Any Left? 100 Years Of ‘Michigan Teacher Shortage’ Headlines

Media keeps publishing the dubious claim, so public school establishment keeps repeating it By Tom Gantert – The Lansing State...

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Michigan’s Largest Teachers Un...

Dec 2, 2017 by

Michigan’s Largest Teachers Union Has Lost 25 Percent of Its Members

MEA’s decline much greater than its ‘worst fears’ after right-to-work allowed teachers to leave By Tom Gantert and Evan Carter...

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Incentive For New Teachers in ...

Nov 27, 2017 by

Incentive For New Teachers in Hard-To-Fill Specialties? Zero

Experience, independent research, suggest Michigan’s system doesn’t make sense By Tom Gantert – Education experts claim that...

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State’s Largest Teachers Union...

Nov 4, 2017 by

State’s Largest Teachers Union Offloads Some Pension Obligations Onto Taxpayers

MEA’s own unfunded pension liabilities now stand at $130.3 million By Tom Gantert – Faced with skyrocketing financial...

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Fake News: HuffPost Article on...

Nov 1, 2017 by

Fake News: HuffPost Article on DeVos Filled With Mistruths

Union officials presented simply as ‘teachers,’ hedge funds bizarrely linked to charter schools By Tom Gantert – So-called fake...

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22 Percent of Public Students ...

Sep 27, 2017 by

22 Percent of Public Students in Michigan Use School Choice

Number has been growing sharply By Tom Gantert – Public school choice in Michigan has become increasingly popular in the past...

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More Inaccuracies in New York ...

Sep 14, 2017 by

More Inaccuracies in New York Times Attack on Michigan Charter Schools

Fourth in a series. NY Times article gets wrong the number of charters that engage for-profit managers The New York Times Magazine...

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Despite Claims, There Is No Te...

Jul 24, 2017 by

Despite Claims, There Is No Teacher Shortage in Michigan 

A majority of Michiganders with a teaching license aren’t teaching By Tom Gantert – The Portage school district in Kalamazoo...

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