Courts
DOJ charges 47 in $250M pandemic fraud scheme involving child nutrition program(The Center Square) – The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against 47 defendants for allegedly defrauding taxpayers of $250 million by exploiting a child nutrition program. People defrauded taxpayers… Read More
Culture
Some Michigan schools keep mum on COVID relief spending(The Center Square) – Theoretically, taxpayers should be able to see how Michigan schools are spending $5.7 billion of taxpayer money to recover from COVID-19-related learning loss. Read More
Public Education
Michigan schools use one-time COVID relief for pay increases, increasing long-term taxpayer burden(The Center Square) – Many Michigan schools are spending one-time federal COVID relief dollars on pay hikes that will increase the long-term taxpayer cost of education, according to more than… Read More
Culture
Christian group sues AG Nessel over civil rights interpretation(The Center Square) – A Christian health care group says that Michigan’s recently reinterpreted civil rights law relating to sexual orientation and gender identity violates its constitutional right to religion. Read More
Public Education
How Saginaw Public Schools spent $27M of COVID relief money(The Center Square) – As students statewide return to the classroom, Michigan school districts have spent some of nearly $6 billion allocated to help students recover from COVID-19. Michigan schools… Read More