Two Op-Eds by Mike Van Beek, director of education policy, on school employee concessions and how sales tax and lottery money fund public education, appeared in The Oakland Press Friday. Van Beek has written extensively about several commonly held myths surrounding public school funding.
On Saturday, an Op-Ed by James Hohman, fiscal policy analyst, and Dustin Anderson, research intern, about the 2010 school privatization study they conducted appeared in the Dearborn Times-Herald.
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