On the left, it has self-interested Michigan Education Association leaders fulminating and issuing fatwas, while Gov. Jennifer Granholm shakes her head gloomily and avers that she'll have to "see the details." On the right, they're looking for a snake in the grass, and muttering suspiciously that it's part of a larger Democratic scheme to engineer a major tax increase.
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From Mirs News, evidence of the power mismatch described in this piece:
State Superintendent Mike FLANAGAN came out squarely behind a statewide health care pooling plan. . . When asked whether local school boards couldn't manage benefits or trim benefit costs, Flanagan said based on his experience as a local superintendent it's very difficult.
"The pressure on local boards is enormous and it doesn't take much to take people who mean well, who run for the board and who can be bullied," he said, retelling a story of how he had a plan to reform transportation at Farmington Hills to save money. He said 30 members of the public showed up and that proposal to realize savings was dead.
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