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Wall Street Journal
Parents Must Take Back School Boards
“More parents should run for school board, not to join the system, but to reform it.”
Carol Beth Litkouhi, Trustee of the Rochester Community Schools Board of Education
MLive
Rochester Community Schools Sued Over Bylaw Limiting Trustee Speech
“Rochester’s policy attempts to silence trustees and keep their constituents in the dark about decisions that directly affect them.”
Derk Wilcox, Senior Attorney
The Detroit News
Michigan’s Inflated Teacher Evals Are Failing Students
“Michigan’s leaders should recommit to honest evaluations that reflect student performance, enforce consistent standards across districts and demand accountability when results don’t align with reality.”
Molly Macek, Director of Education Policy
Crain’s Detroit Business
Opinion: For once, Michigan said No to New Business Subsidies
“For the first time in decades, Michigan’s lawmakers finished a year without authorizing more selective business subsidies. That’s excellent when the subsidies are ineffective at creating jobs, unfair to taxpayers and competing businesses and expensive to the state budget.”
Michael J. Reitz, Executive Vice President
Washington Examiner
It’s Groundhog Day All over Again on Free Trade
“Overall, America has more jobs than ever, and those jobs pay better than ever. And remarkably, the U.S. manufactures more than ever.”
James M. Hohman, Director of Fiscal Policy
The Washington Post
What Indiana Got Wrong About Cigarette Taxes
“We do not smoke. We don’t want you to. But lawmakers from Maine to California should recognize that their cigarette excise tax policies may do more to enrich smugglers than to help people quit.”
Michael LaFaive, Senior Director of the Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative; Todd Nesbit, Ph.D.
