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In the name of "education reform," and "accountability," the Legislature decided last year that student standardized test scores had to be a factor in teacher and administration evaluations. Their move is now raising some interesting questions: How public should the information on individual teacher and administrator evaluations be? What is the public entitled to know?

Earlier this week, Protect Working Families released an ad featuring law enforcement officials about the importance of collective bargaining in protecting kids.

The House Education Committee is still avidly pursuing Gov. Snyder's education reform agenda, and this time cyber schools are taking center stage. The Committee Chair, Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R-Lowell), has come up with legislation that she says will "totally transform traditional public schools as we know it."

It will have to be the courts again to ultimately decide whether the Legislature has overstepped its bounds when it comes to school employees and their retirement benefits. Gov. Snyder is appealing a recent Michigan Court of Appeals decision that the 3 percent “tax” on employees for their retiree health care is unconstitutional.

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is a national treasure that provides great education programming for metro Detroit schools. It's a resource that the Metro Detroit area can't afford to lose, which is why MEA is recommending a YES vote on the DIA millages in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties.