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EDITORIAL: WCC Graduation Rate
“COUNTY TAXPAYERS PAY $345 per $100,000 in taxable home value to support Washtenaw Community College. In 2012-2013, county taxpayers paid $45.9 million to WCC officials. In return the two-year college’s President Bellanca graduated just…
Treasury Officials Confirm Local Economic Development Entities Divert Public School Funding
by P.D. Lesko
While AAPS Superintendent Dr. Jeanice Kerr Swift publicly challenges Gov. Snyder and legislators over cuts to K-12 funding, local economic development groups siphon away millions of public school dollars through tax…
AAPS Superintendent Criticizes Michigan Pols (Again) Over School Funding
by Rob Smith
“It is shameful,” said Dr. Jeanice K. Swift, Superintendent of the Ann Arbor Public Schools. “This proposal unfairly impacts communities across the state of Michigan, such as Ann Arbor.
AS THE MICHIGAN Legislature debated…
U-M Livingston Awards Announced for Young Journalists—No Michigan Journo Wins
STORIES ABOUT THE misuse of taxpayer money to fund private schools, life-threatening delays in blood testing of newborns and the plight of political asylum seekers won the Livingston Awards today.
The $10,000 prizes for journalists under…
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…
