FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LANSING — The selection of Betsy DeVos to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education is an affront to students and education professionals in Michigan, according to the leaders of [...]
State Legislators are considering using the Lame Duck session as an opportunity to rob public employees of their retirement benefits. Led by anti-working-families billionaires including Dick [...]
AFT Michigan and MEA members picket outside Snyder’s office, calling on him to #StopTheAppeals of 3 percent lawsuit decisions LANSING — School employees from the American Federation of Teachers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
DETROIT – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed a complaint against New Urban Learning (NUL)/Inspired Education (InspirED), alleging that former New Urban Learning CEO Lesley [...]
Supplemental will allow education to continue for Detroit’s children MICHIGAN — AFT Michigan and the Detroit Federation of Teachers applauded a $50 million supplemental appropriation bill passed [...]
Detroit Federation of Teachers members have made hundreds of phone calls this week to AFT Michigan members across the state. They’re calling on their colleagues to join the fight for [...]
The House Oversight and Ethics Committee met last Thursday to consider House Bill 4982, which would specify that an unemployment agency determination could not be based solely on a [...]
The House Republican proposal for Detroit Public Schools calls for paying the debt amassed during state control of the district, but the remainder of the proposal is an attempt to masquerade [...]
