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.
After a series of hastily-passed major education reforms were pushed through the state legislature and signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm and two rounds of applications signed off on by the state’s school districts, state officials and the teachers unions, Michigan still lost out on the possibility of receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in federal [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm says her budget proposal, released on Feb. 11, protects education spending. The Macomb Daily reports:
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released a video announcing the 16 finalists in the Race to the Top funding battle Thursday morning, and despite a flurry of legislative action to change state law in order to revamp Michigan’s education system, Michigan did not make the cut. The finalists were Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, [...]
In what can only be termed a no-holds-barred public relations roll out, the Michigan Department of Education has unveiled the state’s application for Race to the Top funds. The roll out includes a five page executive summary, the 631-page application and a video of State Superintendent Mike Flannigan discussing the import of the reforms passed [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm recalled a troublesome year for the state of Michigan at an end-of-year press conference, blaming budget dysfunction on term limits, endorsing deep changes to the state’s tax structure and predicting more budget troubles in 2010
Kevin Epling, co-director of BullyPolice U.S.A. and a staunch advocate in Michigan’s drive to pass anti-bullying legislation, says he is disappointed that in the race to pass reforms to qualify for millions in federal education cash, the state ignored passing comprehensive anti-bullying legislation. In an e-mail to Facebook supporters, Epling wrote:
A number of education reform bills designed to make Michigan eligible for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid under the Obama administration’s Race to the Top initiative were passed by the state legislature on Saturday and sent to Gov. Granholm for her signature. The five-bill package of reforms includes an increase in the [...]
LANSING– Both chambers of the Michigan legislature remained in session Thursday night, preparing for four bills lawmakers say are key to Michigan’s educational future. Four bills are pending in joint House-Senate conference committees. There lawmakers will hammer out the differences between the bills passed in the Democratic dominated House and the Republican majority Senate. Once [...]
LANSING — It’s not Shakespeare, but it’s drama nonetheless at the Capitol today. House Democrats held a press conference at 12:30 p.m. to vent their frustrations with Senate Republicans who walked away from a joint House-Senate conference committee last night. The committee has been working to hammer out compromise legislation meant to fulfill the requirements [...]
LANSING — A top Republican in the Michigan House thinks reforms necessary for the state to qualify for millions of dollars in federal education cash are being hampered by “special interests.”
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