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The state officially certified Michigan’s election returns two days ago, and though the focus was on the extremely close presidential race, there was…

Most rallies these days are focused on the 2016 presidential election. But a different kind of crowd showed up Wednesday on the State Capitol lawn.…

This week, a state House panel in Lansing kicked off a series of hearings on Common Core. You might have been hearing about the Common Core lately. It's a…

The term "economy" is used constantly in news stories or opinion pieces about Michigan, its trials and tribulations, its budding recovery.But John Austin…

Chad Livengood of the Detroit News revealed the group that met in secret, which dubbed itself a "skunk works" last week:The revelation caused an uproar…

In his address on modernizing public education in Michigan in April of 2011, Governor Snyder said:Part of Snyder's plan to overhaul the state's education…

State Board of Education President John Austin published a commentary in MLive yesterday.He's raises big concerns over a series of education overhaul…

For the first time in a decade, Michigan's State Board of Education has a new president. Yesterday, John Austin was unanimously elected to lead the board.…