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- Top 25 Current Comments of 2008
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 23, 2008
- Southfield goes public on bargaining
- Blowing Smoke Over Private Property Rights
- Point of Departure
- MESSA an issue in contract talks
- Make Unions Accountable for Illegal Strikes
- Districts eye school closings
- IMPACT Winter 2008
- Ideas and Political Leadership
- Speaking Truth to Power
- Mount Pleasant, others looking at insurance pool
- At What Point Does Being Nosy Deserve a Broken Nose?
- Promise Grant could be axed
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 16, 2008
- DPS board ousts Calloway
- Granholm Administration on Automaker Bailout: Throw Taxpayers Under the Government Pensioners’ Bus
- Flint-area administrator pay averages $90,800
- It Shouldn’t Be Hard To Be Humble
- Teacher faces sex charge
- What the Auto Industry Needs Is Regulatory Changes
- No cutting in these lines
- No fingerprints, no contract
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 9, 2008
- State to take financial control of DPS
- Judge blocks e-mail release
- More Schools 'Show Michigan the Money'
- Is there a Ford in our presence?
- Requiem for Reason
- How to Save Detroit
- Will We Move Forward or Backward on Union Transparency?
- Freeze-for-MESSA in Walled Lake
- How to Control College Costs
- Lansing enrollment down by 688
- Wind technology on tap in Warren
- Kind Words
- Journalists allowed into school-closing meeting
- What We Should Have Learned from the Great Depression
- Bay City teachers to pay deductible
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 2, 2008
- Wary districts eye possible proration
- Michigan Cigarette Excise Tax Inducing Widespread Cigarette Smuggling, Other Unintended Consequences
- Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling
- Teachers keep MESSA, accept wage freeze
- DPS board eyes downsizing, other cuts
- Ontario teachers miffed at deadline
- Collecting the "Rent"
- Michigan schools in NCLB lawsuit
- Legislative Alert
- UAW-Ford Contract Sheds Light on Big Three’s Situation
- U of M Economists: GDP Will Grow by 2.9759312053 percent in 2037
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 25, 2008
- Property sales don't pan out
- Into and beyond the MEAP
- Can The UAW Be Taken Seriously?
- School Employees Union Shows School Boards the Whip
- Districts pay teachers to leave
- How to Save Detroit
- Critics: DPS chief should cut personal security
- Schools should change election date
- Never Give Up
- K Promise shows mixed results
- School Employees Union Shows School Boards the Whip
- More kids homeless, schools say
- Bailout Resources
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 18, 2008
- Reform slate to challenge DFT
- Tough Choices Ahead for Workers
- Teachers opt to leave MESSA, get pay hike
- Warren teacher quits amid allegations
- Wyandotte students beat Algebra II odds
- Contract: No pay hike, no outsourcing
- “Carry On”
- November/December 2008 Michigan Capitol Confidential articles
- Michael Crichton, RIP
- Six Michigan schools on Catholic honor roll
- Where Are All the Green Jobs?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 11, 2008
- Cuts, closings ahead in Flint
- Happy 20th Anniversary
- Beyond Basics
- 20th Anniversary Gala
- PEG Fees Unnecessary
- U.P. students feel slighted by map
- Proposal to Raise Fees on Television Providers is Unnecessary, Likely to Increase Cable Rates
- John Riecker, RIP
- Teachers honored
- Southfield opens STEM school
- Us vs. Them: The People and the Political Class
- Charter share grows in Michigan
- Recall Drama Rumbles On
- Northwood, Cornerstone team up on economics class
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 4, 2008
- Teachers call in sick, school closed
- Parents' e-mail addresses won't be released
- Will We Move Forward or Backward on Union Transparency?
- The Government’s Plan to Fix Wall Street Will Do More Harm
- American Greetings Says Hello to More Incentives
- Public Education: Time for Change Based on the Merits
- DPS: Agreement in lieu of takeover
- Revolutionary Cure
- Michigan Privatization Digest - October 31, 2008
- Only write-ins on Holly ballot
- Property Taxes and Home Values Deserve Closer Scrutiny
- Schools beef up video surveillance
- Release of e-mail addresses raises questions
- MEGA Stumble?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 28, 2008
- GR teachers: Let us decide pay, insurance
- Alternative energy subsidies: Yes or no?
- Nonvoters Cast a Different Ballot
- Teachers agree to insurance changes, get pay raises
- Requiem for Reason
- Cash flow an issue in Pontiac
- Substitute teachers drawn into debate
- Frugality Put in the Pokey
- Belding offers free breakfast to all
- Ypsilanti considers lawsuit over state funding
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 21, 2008
- No more 'well-paid' dropouts, expert says
- Schools show interest in pilot merit pay program
- Two Weeks Until Election Day: Do You Know Where Your Legislator Is?
- Judge: Union e-mails are public record
- IMPACT Fall 2008
- Indispensable Leadership
- Contracts settled in Muskegon area
- Teacher Merit-Pay Plan Gaining Popularity
- School-closing group names members
- September/October 2008 Michigan Capitol Confidential articles
- Creative Charlatanry 2.0
- New estimate puts DPS enrollment near 96,000
- Great Depression Myths Revisited
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 14, 2008
- Charter company wants to open fourth school
- American Greetings Says Hello to More Incentives
- Buses: 90 percent pass inspection
- Great Depression Myths Revisited
- The Merits of the Case
- Tecumseh voting on use of ‘Redskins’
- The “Scene” and the Unseen
- Strike heads to court
- Legislative Alert
- Great Depression Myths Revisited
- School-closing committee not open to public
- State Works at Cross Purposes
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 7, 2008
- The Merits of the Case
- DPS lays off 300
- ‘First class’ issue looms in Detroit
- Great Depression Myths Revisited
- Education Forum
- Teachers strike, students sent home
- Great Depression Myths Revisited
- Michigan Supreme Court Decision Limits Agency Powers
- Smart Growth Is Neither
- State Checkbook Still Missing From Internet
- One-room school closes doors
- School district closes movie deal
- Audit details DPS woes
- Conservationist or Environmentalist?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 30, 2008
- Those Who Do Not Study History ….
- Enrollment down, charters and choice up
- The Government’s Plan to Fix Wall Street Will Do More Harm
- Playing Carnac with the Future
- Detroit student count down by 16,000
- Hart Enterprises Verdicts Prove Need for New State Wetland Legislation
- Not So Fast!
- Former Holly teacher arraigned on sex charges
- Go to school, win a car
- Schools outsource benefit administration
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 23, 2008
- DPS intervention possible
- Grand Haven insurance changes
- Grand Rapids contract still unresolved
- A Merit-Pay Pilot Program for Michigan Public Schools
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 16, 2008
- First-grade student brings loaded gun to school
- DPS loses adult education funds
- DPS Superintendent reprimanded by board
- Pinckney schools and union stumble over pay and insurance
- How tax credits and vouchers work
- Parent satisfaction higher in private schools
- Legislative Alert
- Health insurance: Reformed, but not resolved
- How Tax Credits and Vouchers Work
- DPS loses adult education funds
- Issues and Ideas Forum, September 11, 2008
- Internal union disputes need better governance
- Flint schools discuss sex-education
- Contract talks civil for Muskegon-area schools
- Goodrich schools look at bus advertising
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 9, 2008
- Internal Union Disputes Need Better Governance
- Eight Ballot Measures We Would Like to See
- Survey 2008: School Service Privatization Grows Again
- UVL Data, Migration Study Underscore Michigan Troubles
- History For Sale: Why Not?
- Grand Rapids contract talks continue
- Detroit Deserves a Chance
- Michigan Privatization Digest - September 3, 2008
- Schools crack down on truancy
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Michigan Education Association v. Michigan Secretary of State
- Court Ruled Correctly in Preventing Use of Government Resources to Facilitate Political Contributions, According to Mackinac Center Senior Legal Analyst
- Madison teachers take pay freeze
- Salaries, benefits outpace state aid increase
- Zeeland pays teacher to leave
- Willow Run superintendent on Illinois school board
- Wayne-Westland teachers vote to take "job action"
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 2, 2008
- Districts look for ways to meet special ed HQT standards
- A New Direction on Drilling
- Union Spending in Michigan: A Review of Union Financial Disclosure Reports
- FEE: A Lighthouse for Freedom
- Study of Union Financial Reports Reveals Excessive Waste, Political Activism
- Grand Rapids teachers union threatens illegal strike
- More Michigan schools fall short of goals
- Portage bidding process questioned
- One-quarter of Michigan high school students don't finish
- DPS sued over computer lease
- Saginaw pays to get rid of teacher
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 26, 2008
- RMGN Rejected
- Policymakers Fail to See Light on Energy Policy
- Eight Ballot Measures We Would Like to See
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 19, 2008
- Panel OK’s new special education rules
- Group hopes to fund college scholarships for Detroit grads
- Vendors won't send DPS textbooks
- Brighton tries to solve overspending crisis
- Board member: All teachers shoulder blame
- Study: Market-Based Incentives for Teachers Key to Student Achievement
- Privatization numbers up again
- Test article for Kara
- The Best and the Brightest
- State board, nonprofit group at odds over Camp Tuhsmeheta
- Michigan State Supreme Court Strikes Proper Balance
- School Services Privatization Rises for Fifth Consecutive Survey, According to Mackinac Center Research
- Survey 2008: School Service Privatization Grows Again
- MME scores improve slightly in most subjects
- Michigan residents want teacher benefit reform
- California court overturns ruling on homeschooling
- United Way starts program to curb dropout rates
- State to hold hearing on special education changes
- Directional Drilling
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 12, 2008
- Legislators take up special ed rules
- Judge rules for Warren charter school
- Pulp Fiction
- Solzhenitsyn R.I.P.
- Muskegon charter recognized for student achievement
- Quincy teachers won't bargain to save jobs
- Public school competing for charter students
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 5, 2008
- Finding algebra in fashion design
- Do Unions Really Need the Money?
- Amending the State Constitution for Partisan Advantage?
- Great Lakes Directional Drilling Ban Should Be Lifted
- Mackinac Center Asks Oakland County School Districts to Publish Their Checkbook Registers
- Detroit Schools might have to repay $1.3 million to feds
- Michigan ranks last in graduating black males
- Bay City high schools switch to trimesters
- Schools adjust to rising fuel costs
- Friedman, Freedom and All That Jazz
- Legislative Alert
- Governor’s Office Refuses to Post Expenditure Details of Overspending Departments
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 29, 2008
- How to stop bullying in our schools
- Michigan adopts NCLB ‘growth model’
- Savings from “Reform Government” Initiative: Four Pennies a Week
- July/August 2008 Michigan Capitol Confidential articles
- Landmark Michigan Supreme Court Decision Puts Bounds on the Growing Power of State Agencies
- Thoughts on Michigan’s Unemployment Rate
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in In re Complaint of Rovas Against SBC Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 22, 2008
- Property Rights Video Collection
- Mackinac Center Changes
- Lean thinking for schools
- Reed to Become President Emeritus of Mackinac Center; Board Unanimously Names Lehman Successor
- Out of Bounds
- An Intern’s Service to Michigan
- Document on UAW Web Site Outlined Strategy for 'Changing the Rules of Politics in Michigan to Help Democrats'
- UAW-Posted PowerPoint Presentation on 'Reform Michigan Government Now' Proposal
- Reform Michigan Government Now
- DEQ Permit Denial Sets Dangerous Precedent
- Legislative Alert
- Property Rights Network Promo
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 15, 2008
- ‘It’s hard, but it’s fun’
- Long on Words, Short on Reform
- First class or 21st century?
- Aristotle on Mixed Economies
- IMPACT Summer 2008
- DPS sues former employees for allegedly issuing illicit contracts
- GVSU decides not to reauthorize Kalamazoo charter school
- Court of Appeals sides with schools in reporting cost case
- Student expelled after attack on freshman
- Plainwell schools add hours for struggling students
- Biomonitoring and Controversy Surrounding a Great Lakes Pollution Study are Featured in the Latest Issue of MichiganScience
- The First Attempt
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 8, 2008
- Teacher Quality: For Teachers Only to Judge?
- MichiganScience No. 7
- Mackinac Center names essay contest winners
- Keep Michigan’s Successful Electricity Competition Law
- Changing Direction. Are We There Yet?
- Latest Economic Numbers Confirm Failure of Status Quo
- Great Lakes Directional Drilling Ban Should Be Lifted
- West Ottawa Schools proceeds with tenure hearing
- DPS board cuts 1,700 jobs
- Resident concerned about Mesick contract ratification process
- Northville unions agree to $1.2 million in concessions
- Fruitport schools financially stable due to schools of choice
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 1, 2008
- Detroit not the only school district seeing red
- Michigan Privatization Digest - June 30, 2008
- A Teacher Quality Primer
- Lawton administrators change insurance, share in savings
- Petoskey to continue savings with food service privatization
- DPS overspending pegged at $408 million for 2009
- MESSA costs go up 17.5 percent for Swan Valley
- Gouging Consumers and Businesses Alike
- Alternative program considered a success in Westwood
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 24, 2008
- Divisive Government?
- Hart Enterprises: A Wetland Case Study
- Legislative Alert
- Author Discusses Teacher Quality Primer
- Issues and Ideas Forum, June 18, 2008
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 17, 2008
- Golf and University Privatization
- A Visible Difference: Observations from Warsaw
- Detroit Cristo Rey: A new option in Catholic education
- An Unexpected Ally
- Mackinac Center hosting forum on teacher quality
- Many minority students don't graduate from high school
- Detroit school receives grant for drug testing
- Grand Rapids high schools adjust attendance policies
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 10, 2008
- Special ed parent: ‘We have not had a voice’
- The Internet and F.A. Hayek
- Privatization Rolls on Despite Rhetorical Opposition (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Greenhouse Gas Accord Will Further Damage Michigan's Economy
- The Worst Legislature in Michigan History
- House-Passed Legislation Threatens Michigan’s Water Rights
- What’s the Purpose of a Tax?
- Issues and Ideas Forum, June 4, 2008
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 3, 2008
- Missed deadline costs teacher more in union fees
- Legislative Alert
- State Should Help Rank and File Monitor Unions
- The High Cost of Government Regulation
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 27, 2008
- Fifteen years later, home-school parents say legal battle was worth it
- Martin “Marty” Wing: Rest in Peace
- 30 Michigan high schools on Newsweek’s top school list
- Creeping Socialism: The “Health Care for Michigan” Initiative
- Michigan Doesn’t Need More Electricity Regulation
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 20, 2008
- How one district overhauled its academic plan
- Michigan’s Climate Consultant Skews Cost Estimates
- Detroit Schools $45 million in debt, may see another state takeover
- Tuition Tax Credit program signed into law in Georgia
- May/June 2008 Michigan Capitol Confidential articles
- Proposals to Suppress Competition in Electricity and Mandate Renewable Energy Use Would Raise Prices Without Improving Service or Environment
- Michigan students struggle to pass Algebra I
- Oak Park chief of staff purchases personal shower, gym on school property
- Dearborn charters struggle to keep up on state tests
- Proposals to Further Regulate Michigan’s Electricity Market: An Assessment
- Charter school research presents unique obstacles
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 13, 2008
- Flint Schools pink slip another 28 employees
- Grand Rapids Schools contract for custodial services
- Michigan Privatization Digest - April 30, 2008
- Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in Grand Rapids Case Involving Privatization of School Bus Services and Public-Sector Unions
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 6, 2008
- New high school graduation requirements in action
- Michigan Education Digest Daily
- Free Trade a Boon to Michigan’s Ailing Economy
- MEDC Rejects Development Bird-in-the-Hand
- As Time Goes By
- Shedding light on teacher contracts
- School leader wins iPod
- Legislative Action
- Michigan’s Tax and Business Incentive Climate
- Students for a Free Economy Wins Fisher Award
- Show Michigan the Money
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 29, 2008
- Much to be Done
- Issues and Ideas Forum, April 29, 2008
- The Right-to-Work Advantage in Economic Growth: A Look at Past Performance
- T-1 Could Help Terminate Union Financial Abuse
- Mackinac Center’s “Show Michigan the Money” Project Prompts Michigan Department of State to Post Unprecedented Detail in Department Spending
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 22, 2008
- Paving Over the Truth
- ‘Data-driven’ in Michigan
- Kudos to Macomb County
- Ethanol May Not Be as Environmentally Friendly as Some Claim
- Mackinac Center Provides School District Employee Union Contracts to Public
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 15, 2008
- Government Golf Slices City Revenue
- Keep the Electoral College
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Michigan Department of Transportation v. Tomkins
- A Fallacious Argument Against Electricity Competition
- Legislators’ Hollywood Dreams Defy Economic Reality
- Should Home-Schoolers Beware?
- Author to Speak About Free-Market Health Care Alternatives
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 8, 2008
- Increased Federal Jurisdiction on Michigan Wetlands a Bad Idea
- Colleges: ‘Wait and see’ on Detroit charter schools
- My Union Dues Paid For That?
- Putting the University’s Cart Before the Economy’s Horse
- State Should Adopt Health Savings Accounts
- New Smog Rules Unfair to Western Michigan
- Michigan Education Digest Daily
- Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 1, 2008
- Privatization Review a Mixed Bag
- Defending Liberty for Twenty Years
- IMPACT Spring 2008
- Grab Bag Government
- Personal Income Figures Show That the Michigan Slide Continues
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 25, 2008
- Private special ed school might be forced out of building
- Mamet on the Money
- Expand the Principles of Proposal A
- The Times That Tried Men’s Economic Souls
- “20/20” Investigative Reporter John Stossel to Address Health Care at Central Michigan University
- “20/20” Investigative Reporter John Stossel to Address Health Care at University of Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 18, 2008
- Expanding Access to Health Care — A Free Market Perspective
- Celebrating Sunshine Week: Mackinac Center Launches School Checkbook Transparency Project
- Michigan School District Checkbook Register Report
- Simic Verses Lloyd
- New State Job Loss Figures Confirm Need for Policy Reforms
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 11, 2008
- Poetry Slam
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 4, 2008
- People Must Demand Honesty and Integrity in Their Leaders
- The Wizard of Oz Has No Clothes
- Bad Science Fuels Environmental Policies
- Can Michigan Attract Knowledge-Based Industries?
- What Michigan Can Do to Improve its Labor Climate
- Michigan Privatization Digest - February 29, 2008
- Government Education Reinvents Government
- Michigan Education Report (2008-01)
- William F. Buckley Jr., RIP
- For Further Reading
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 26, 2008
- Report: Biomonitoring an Important New Tool in Evaluating Health Risks
- Protecting Private Property Rights Benefits Michigan’s Economy
- The Opportunities and Limitations of Biomonitoring
- Fuel Hikes Won’t Spur Public Transit
- Striking the Root
- Requiem for a Union Local
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 19, 2008
- MichiganScience No. 6
- Privatization Revolution
- Government Spending Continues No Matter What
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 12, 2008
- Russ Harding to Discuss Property Rights
- Lawsuit Should Promote Regulatory Accountability
- A Taxing Question
- Governor Criticized for Wrong Thing on SOS Prison Proposals
- Climate Change Debate at MSU
- What I Want to Read in 2008
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 5, 2008
- Beach Affront
- The Unvarnished State of the State
- Automotive Production Expands – Elsewhere
- How MESSA and the MEA Work
- A Flawed Argument for Higher State Taxes
- Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis, February-March 2008
- Expansion Defeats Limitation in Governor’s Speech
- Environmental Researchers to Discuss “When Green is Mean” at University of Michigan
- Gov. Granholm Proposes Record 24 Expansions of Government and Four Limitations in 2008 State of the State Address
- Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s 2008 State of the State Address
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 29, 2008
- Tally of Proposed Government Expansions and Limitations in State of the State Address Will be Available After Speech
- Right-to-Work Mythbusters
- Globalization is Good for Michigan
- MEA Document Provides Interesting Details
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 22, 2008
- Davey Award Winner
- Inflation Is Still With Us
- Michigan Privatization Digest - January 10, 2008
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 15, 2008
- A Really Gross Domestic Product
- Mission Creep
- A Great (Lake) Decision
- IMPACT Winter 2007
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 8, 2008
- Expanded Around the State
- Let the Union Buyer Beware
- Michigan Needs Worker Freedom of Choice
- Migration Trends, Indiana Campaign Show Need for Policy Changes in Michigan
- How to Fix What's Broken
- Michigan Leads the Nation in Outbound Moves