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Performance-based pay

… 2011 reforms prohibited a school district from negotiating … its teachers.”[16] Michigan school districts traditionally agreed … despite high and rising state spending. In this context, alternative … Granholm passed a law requiring a school district “to maintain a method … compensation for its teachers and school administrators that includes …

Payroll deduction of union dues

A 2011 law prohibited school districts from using public resources … labor organization. A public school employer’s use of public school resources to assist a labor … fees from wages of public school employees is a prohibited … governmental decisions on spending and policy. It ruled that …

Don’t redirect pension funds

Lawmakers should be wary about lowering pension debt payments

… pension debt payments and spend it elsewhere. Michigan legislators … public retirees. All public school employees are required by … insurance system. Michigan public schools send money to the state to … The state accidentally made school employees the state’s largest … debt is bad for teachers. School resources now go to pay down …

In Detroit schools, nothing succeeds like failure

Conventional schools get more money to do worse, while charter schools do better with less

Charter schools outperform conventional public schools in Detroit despite getting … the best open enrollment schools in Michigan. Their success … best open-enrollment middle schools in Detroit are charter schools, … been characterized by record spending on public schools statewide …

From Intern to Fiscal Wiz: James Hohman Unravels Michigan’s Budget Mysteries

… Michigan’s other strong free-market school. His first project at the Mackinac … containing every line item of state spending. “One of the regular things I ask … that ought to apply to government spending. “The closest free-market policy … from the state to prevent public spending for select private benefits were …

Ain’t No Spending High Enough

Letter from the Executive Vice President

… for child care and elder care Offer new economic development incentives Spend more on postsecondary education and training Give tax credits for student … governance model for education; and design a new funding model for K-12 schools. All this will require, it says, “a complete retooling of government systems …

Don’t redirect pension funds

Lawmakers should be wary about lowering pension debt payments

… pension debt payments and spend it elsewhere. Michigan legislators … public retirees. All public school employees are required by … insurance system. Michigan public schools send money to the state to … The state accidentally made school employees the state’s largest … debt is bad for teachers. School resources now go to pay down …

Flint schools get $156M in COVID funds, ask for debt relief

District seeks $56M bailout from Michigan Legislature

Leaders of Flint’s school district have asked state lawmakers … years after Flint Community Schools received $156 million in COVID-19 … per pupil. Flint Community Schools received $51,193 per pupil … state. Benton Harbor Area Schools was second at $29,502 per … 300 homeless students. The spending, which the district said …

Super-seniors won’t fix Michigan’s population problem

Any task expands to fill the time you give it

… super-seniors at the high school level. Super-seniors are … an additional year of high school education. Super-seniors could … shows that efficient public spending, which produces value for … generation? What’s more, higher spending on public schools does not … workforce and even more school spending.

Governor pushes for ‘free’ community college, but current results are abysmal

As spending per student skyrockets, most students don’t even complete school

… graduating or continuing to other schools is alarmingly low. The answer … over 40%. But taxpayers are spending more than ever on community colleges. Schools get money from state taxpayers, … superior results for this spending. But it is hard to see that … years. Despite the increase in spending per student, the trend in …