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There’s nothing surprising about last week’s news that Detroit’s main city government joined the likes of Vallejo, Calif., and Jefferson County, Ala., in filing bankruptcy. Six decades of fiscal and operational fecklessness by Motor...

On election night 2006, Dick DeVos, the bronzed, starched 51-year-old scion of Michigan’s wealthiest family, paced to a lectern in the dim ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in Lansing to deliver the speech that every candidate dreads. The Michigan gubernatorial...

Donald Trump prevailed where other Republican presidential candidates failed in Midwestern states in part because of new right-to-work laws that have diminished the power and influence of the teachers’ unions, according to labor policy analysts. “Unions...

Protesters try to block DeVos from visiting DC schools: Protesters on Friday blocked Education Secretry Betsy DeVos from entering two schools in Washington, D.C., on Friday, the latest sign of opposition to President Trump's most controversial Cabinet...

Teachers union organizing in hostile charter environment, while L.A. school board blocks "out of touch" plan by billionaires. Over the past decade and longer, there has been a massively funded effort by the wealthiest people in America to replace public...