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Michigan fines, disciplines at least 132 people under 2020 implicit bias training. Rule breakers fined a collective $75,000 in 2024 Read more. News Story.
Reading scores plummeted as Michigan schools adopted now …
Sep 20, 2024 · For three years, Midland Public Schools has used a discredited reading and writing curriculum. M-STEP scores for English Language Arts in the Midland district have worsened over time. In 2019. 61.2% of students scored proficient or advanced. But the most recent number was 50.6%. The drop of nearly ...
Michigan House approves bills to resurrect dues skim for home …
Sep 27, 2024 · Michigan home health care providers could see smaller paychecks after the state House approved bills aimed at resurrecting the dues skim practice voters rejected by wide margins twelve years ago. The House voted Wednesday on Senate Bills 790 and 791, which would push home health care workers into ...
There’s something wrong with Union Township: Part 2
5 days ago · By Michael D. LaFaive and Scott McClallen | October 16, 2024. Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Last week, we highlighted problems with the Union Charter Township government, including a pervasive anti-growth attitude toward new developments. One family’s struggle with local leaders illustrates the extent of the township’s overreach.
Bills aim to return Michigan to bad old days of dues skim
Jul 8, 2024 · Senate bills 790 and 791 aim to revive the dues skim, in which a union takes money from Michigan home health care workers, most of whom are private people who get small public reimbursements for caring for elderly or disabled family members. From 2004 to 2013, Care Council legislation created a fictional employment relationship between home ...
Lawsuit alleging 26K dead on Michigan voter rolls will go on
Aug 29, 2022 · A federal lawsuit alleging that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has refused to remove 26,000 dead people from Michigan's Qualified Voter List will proceed, after a judge denied the state’s motion to dismiss the case. The Public Interest Law Firm filed the case against Benson, in her official capacity, in November 2021.
UAW membership drops significantly in Michigan
Apr 9, 2024 · The UAW is down to 370,239 active, dues-paying members, a drop of approximately 13,000 from last year. The union had more than 700,000 active members in 2002 before bottoming out at around 355,191 in 2010. This hasn’t hurt the union’s revenue, however. It took in $485 million last year, the most ever. Membership numbers are even worse for ...
Michigan agencies staffed by fellows from climate advocacy group
4 days ago · Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Council on Climate Solutions was staffed with people funded by at least one climate advocacy group, according to administration records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Whitmer created the council and other departments via Executive Order 2020-182, which was aimed at fulfilling the MI Healthy Climate Plan.
Michigan in bottom 10 among states in new report
May 5, 2023 · Michigan ranked 41st among 50 states in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best States list. Utah took the No. 1 spot. The list ranks states on eight criteria: crime and corrections, education, health care, natural environment, economy, fiscal stability, infrastructure, and opportunity. Only in health care (20) and opportunity (21) did Michigan ...