“Best practices” in teaching information literacy shift with the digital landscape, says Dr. Troy Hicks, an MEA member and professor of English and Education at Central Michigan University. Hicks co-hosted a March #MichEd Twitter chat on the subject at www.tinyurl.com/MILitChat.
Sen. David Knezek (D-Dearborn Heights) introduced a resolution late Wednesday demanding Gov. Rick Snyder return money illegally taken from school employees’ paychecks from 2010-12, the subject of a seven-year court battle led by MEA and AFT Michigan.
State House and Senate budget proposals released this week contain important differences in education spending compared to Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan released in February. Now negotiations begin to hammer out a final budget by sometime in June.
Your calls and emails have been working – House Bill 4163 to prohibit school calendar and schedule as a subject of bargaining has been slowed in its movement through the House.
A coalition of education groups is suing the state over a $2.5 million appropriation of tax dollars for private schools.
If you only looked at Janet Fairchild’s job title at Hesperia Community Schools, you might think she spends her days issuing punishments for bad behavior. After all, she’s the Discipline Coordinator at the middle and high schools.
Go to a school board meeting in Manistique, and you’ll most likely see John Barry sitting in the audience – or standing at the microphone – no matter if the agenda includes anything related to his duties as president of his ESP local or not.
The tireless fight of Ishpeming bus drivers to beat back recent privatization efforts was highlighted in the opening of the 2017 MEA ESP Conference – with an appropriate theme: “Make Every Connection Matter.”
Michigan would lose more than $150 million in education funding under the Trump administration’s budget plan unveiled last week, which would slash federal investment in public education programs by a whopping 13.5 percent for the upcoming fiscal year.
