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Change is slow in coming to teachers' health-care reform
Posted by anixon July 06, 2008 00:01AM
This was to be the year that Michigan school officials mounted an aggressive attack on health-care costs.
As it turns out -- not so much.
Last fall, state lawmakers approved reforms designed to make it easier for school districts to shop for health insurance, one of their fastest-growing expenses.

Tim Skubick: MEA makes its ire known
Granholm takes hit for losing insurance fight
• APRIL 11, 2008 • FROM LANSING STATE JOURNAL
There's a nice symmetry to the relationship between the governor and the state's largest teachers' union. But that's the only nice thing about it.
The Michigan Education Association was the first teachers' union to jump on the Jennifer Granholm bandwagon for governor. Now, it is the first union to jump off.
Some good folks at the MEA have soured on JMG.