I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
LANSING — Progress Michigan and a host of elected officials, union members and others blasted Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget proposals in 10 separate press conferences across the state Monday.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm reiterated her opposition to any further cuts in state education funding and again declared that she would veto any budget that included such cuts even if that results in a government shutdown. The Detroit News reports:
The battle lines over the FY 2011 state budget, which begins on Oct. 1, have already been drawn. And to no one’s surprise, they’re in the same place they were last year, with Gov. Granholm seeking more revenue and smaller cuts and the Republican-led Senate seeking all cuts to balance the budget. On Wednesday, the [...]
LANSING — Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was waiting in her Capitol office for a temporary spending bill that would re-open state government. The Michigan House had adjourned for the night. And gallery watchers early this morning were streaming out of the Capitol believing the budget battle of 2009 was over, just two hours after it had begun.
But the GOP-led Senate had another plan.
The tension between the Detroit School Board and the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) Superintendent Connie Calloway has grown, ever since they argued over the approval to cut $500 million in spending to plug a gaping deficit. Calloway, who will receive her one-year evaluation from the school board in a closed meeting tonight, may be voted [...]
Not everyone is happy with it, but there is a budget agreement in place to cover K-12 spending at the state level. As the budget process continues at a speed much faster than last year’s cliffhanger in September, the Senate reconvened Thursday after a weeks-long holiday to hammer out a plan to give Michigan’s public [...]
K-12 funding left up in the air A marathon Friday session at the Capitol ended in the wee hours of Saturday morning and Michigan lawmakers began summer vacation after approving several bills and giving the nod to parts of the next state budget — but failing to agree on funding public schools. The Legislature is [...]
[COMMENTARY] When applied to education, the saying “It takes a village to raise a child” is a very popular concept, but our schools and youth are missing a vital support system from adults in the community who find it difficult to help students do better in school and life. Far too many students, especially in [...]
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