This week’s 3% hearing before the state Supreme Court has not come to a conclusion. We are tracking developments and will report them ASAP. Here is a great opinion piece on the subject penned by AFT Michigan President David Hecker and MEA President Paula Herbert.
"If returned to the educators who earned it, the half-billion-plus dollars the state has illegally taken would have a tremendous positive impact for individual families and the state’s economy," they write.
Click the following Web link to read the Hecker and Herbert piece. http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/11/07/teacher-retiree-funds-michigan-supreme-court/839993001/
Click the following Web link to read news coverage of the Wednesday hearing in Lansing http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/supreme_court_teachers_3.html?link_id=1&can_id=74ee541f20f3b9f59526c6c9334d538f&source=email-update-on-3-case-2&email_referrer=&email_subject=update-on-3-case