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OP-ED: An Education is Rarely Cheap, but you Don’t Have to Order the Caviar
by John Schneider
I’LL KEEP MY college commencement speech brief.
Dear graduates: Quit whining about your debts. You’re smart people. You were aware of the options. You made the calculation that an education was worth the financial…
A2POLITICO: AAPS Board of Education Members Leave District $35M Lighter
by P.D. Lesko
TRUSTEES GLENN NELSON and Irene Patalan have said they intend to step down from the Ann Arbor Board of Education. In 2003, they ran as a part of a slate of candidates and have, for a decade, served. In that time, they have…
Corruption Allegations Shake Michigan Education Authority
by Muhammad Kahn
A DETROIT NEWS report revealed that Education Achievement Authority (EAA) Chancellor John Covington used credit cards issued to him by the EAA for personal expenses. Nearly $240,000 has been charged to two credit cards,…
U-M Lecturers’ Union Prez Calls Administrative Pay Scheme “Opaqueness by design”
The University of Michigan employs 1,500 non-tenured faculty. In 2013, while several top-level administrators were secretly given six-figure incentives, bonuses and pay supplements, unionized lecturers received no salary increase due to…
U-M President Stonewalls Public & Faculty Whistle Blowers About Secret Administrative Pay Doled Out
by Donna Iadipaolo
The Chronicle of Higher Education published information provided by a group of U-M tenured faculty that exposed millions in secret incentive and bonus pay given to top-level administrators. Faculty call for dialogue;…
Over 1,800 Elementary Students Participate in the 12th Annual Science Olympiad—the Largest Number Competing in Any U.S. School District
by Donna Iadipaolo
Please note: Donna Iadipaolo has volunteered as a Science Olympiad coach every year for the past four years.
THE LARGEST SCIENCE Olympiad in the nation occurs each year in Ann Arbor thanks to the efforts of…
Haisley Elementary Teacher’s Fifth Graders Send Letters: Nobel Laureate, Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Attorney General, Among Others, Write Back
by Donna Iadipaolo
ALMOST EVERY SCHOOL year in Ann Arbor, Haisley Elementary School Teacher Cedric York instructs students in his fifth-grade class to write to prominent leaders from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds. Mr. York…
EDITORIAL: The University of Michigan’s Secret Pay Enhancement Scheme Must Stop
DR. MARY SUE COLEMAN went to Lansing in 2011 to sing the praises of her university and to stave off threatened cuts to the $316 million dollar allocation the state of Michigan made to the University of Michigan in 2010. In her testimony,…
A2 Virtual+ Info Nights—AAPS Holds Informational Meetings for Those Interested in Online Learning
A2 Virtual+ is offering information nights regarding online course offerings for summer and fall 2014, the enrollment process, and everything Ann Arbor parents and their students need to know to be successful when taking online courses. …
Director Unsure About Handling and Disposal of Suspected Drugs and Paraphernalia Found in Downtown Library Since 2011
JOSIE PARKER HAS been the Executive Director of the Ann Arbor District Library system for a dozen years. A native of Mississippi, she earned a BA in English from Auburn University. She holds a Masters in Information and Library Studies from…