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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Education</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/11.aspx</link><description>School Finance and Employees, Curriculum, Special Ed, Higher Ed, School Choice</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 (Debug Build: 30417.1769)</generator><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 639 (Authorize “neighborhood schools” )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/276081.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:53:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:276081</guid><dc:creator>publis</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/276081.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=11&amp;PostID=276081</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#39;s right, freespeaker.&amp;nbsp; The most important thing in education is to protect the &lt;b&gt;teacher&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The &amp;quot;collective pargaining system&amp;quot; has been in place for decades, and look how good it&amp;#39;s been for education!&amp;nbsp; Who cares about getting a good return of our investment of taxpayer&amp;#39;s dollars in education?&amp;nbsp; As long as the teachers have power and security, that&amp;#39;s all that matters.&amp;nbsp; As we all know, when a monopoly corners the market, the lack of competition and choice for the consumer means that the quality of the product just goes up, up up!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 639 (Authorize “neighborhood schools” )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/275503.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:55:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:275503</guid><dc:creator>FreeSpeaker</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/275503.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=11&amp;PostID=275503</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;This is another bald attempt to undermine the collective bargaining system to which public school employees in Michigan have been entitled for more than 40 years.&amp;nbsp; It is bad legislation that should be rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 639 (Authorize “neighborhood schools” )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/275494.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:33:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:275494</guid><dc:creator>changeagent</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/275494.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=11&amp;PostID=275494</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Paying based on merit is a good first step in education reform.&amp;nbsp; Competition between teachers for jobs and pay, as well as competition between schools for students is the only way to fix the education system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>2009 Senate Bill 639 (Authorize “neighborhood schools” )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/275493.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:275493</guid><dc:creator>admin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/275493.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=11&amp;PostID=275493</wfw:commentRss><description>Introduced in the Senate on June 11, 2009&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.michiganvotes.org/2009-SB-639'&gt;Click here to view bill details.&lt;/a&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>