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Michigan Senate passes bill to reallocate money used for state debt to other projects. The long term cost to taxpayers is $1.4B over 14 years Read more. News Story.
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Michigan Capitol Confidential
Michigan Senate passes bill to reallocate money used for state debt to other projects. The long term cost to taxpayers is $1.4B over 14 years Read more. News Story.
Bills could force some Michigan landlords to accept Section 8 …
Jun 21, 2024 — Michigan landlords who rent five or more units could be forced to accept Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers under a bill package in Lansing. The Legislature is considering Senate bills 205, 206, and 207, as well as House bills 4062 and 4063.Together, the bills seek to prohibit landlords who have five or more units from discriminating against tenants or prospective tenants based on their income ...
Educator behind embattled reading theory to keynote Troy School ...
Dec 8, 2023 — Lucy Calkins, the education professor whose work was disowned by Columbia Teachers College earlier this year, is set to appear as a keynote speaker at a Troy School District conference this weekend, called the Midwest Literacy Coaching Mini-Institute.. Some parents in the Southeast Michigan community say their school district needs to update its curriculum to embrace phonics, the reading ...
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About – Michigan Capitol Confidential. About. Michigan Capitol Confidential is the news source produced by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Michigan Capitol Confidential reports with a free-market news perspective. As news coverage in our state dwindles, it is important to have outside scrutiny of our elected officials and government ...
Michigan Capitol Confidential
Michigan hasn’t defunded education. Lawmaker’s claim is false: Per-pupil funding from state sources increased more than $5,000 from 2012 to 2023 Read more. News Story.
Michigan hasn’t defunded education
Aug 22, 2024 — Per-pupil school revenue from state sources was $7,440 in 2011-12, according to official data assembled by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. That amount reached $12,653 in the 2022-23 year. Total education expenditures were $18.5 billion in the 2010-11 school year, and the comparable figure for 2022-23 was $27.3 billion.
Michigan House approves bills to resurrect dues skim for home …
Sep 27, 2024 — Michigan home health care providers could see smaller paychecks after the state House approved bills aimed at resurrecting the dues skim practice voters rejected by wide margins twelve years ago. The House voted Wednesday on Senate Bills 790 and 791, which would push home health care workers into ...
She Fled Communism For Freedom, Now Faces Jail For Not …
Mar 17, 2021 — A Holland, Michigan, restaurateur who escaped communist rule in Poland as a teenager because she wanted to be a free person faces jail in Michigan for declining to enforce COVID rules on business operations.