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The long-awaited study of education funding in Michigan was released today, and puts in black and white what we’ve known in our classrooms for years: school funding in Michigan is woefully [...]

AFT Michigan and MEA deliver more than 33,000 petition signatures to Snyder and Schuette, calling on them to #StopTheAppeals of 3 percent lawsuit decisions LANSING — The American Federation of [...]

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David Hecker has an op-ed in the Detroit News on the Detroit schools legislation talking about how, “Last week, we were reminded that the people who actually make the choices about our [...]

Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Start Time: 9:00am Ending Time: 4:00pm Location:AFT Michigan Office 2661 E. Jefferson Ave Detroit, MI 48207 For additional details and to register for this event [...]

Republican Legislature’s DPS Plan Ignores Detroit Voices and Picks Politics Over Kids For the past year, the future of Detroit Public Schools has been in doubt. With a massive debt run up [...]

News from AFT Michigan  June 7, 2016 MICHIGAN — Today the Michigan Court of Appeals found unconstitutional a 2010 law requiring public school employees to pay 3 percent of their wages for retiree [...]

Date: Saturday, June 25, 2016 Start Time: 3:00pm Ending Time: 4:30pm Location:2661 East Jefferson Detroit, MI 48207 For additional details and to register for this event copy and paste this link [...]

AFT Michigan on House DPS Plan: ‘A Recipe for Disaster’ Detroit needs real local control and charter accountability MICHIGAN — The Michigan House Republicans, led by House Speaker Kevin Cotter, [...]

Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 Start Time: 11:00am Ending Time: 1:15pm Location:2661 East Jefferson Detroit, MI 48207 For additional details and to register for this event copy and paste this [...]