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If you’ve had enough of the attacks on public school employees and their unions and the middle class, the Senate Democrats want you to go www.miworkers.com to sign a petition that tells Republicans, “Enough is enough!”

Earlier this year, Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer sent out an appeal asking Michigan families to let legislators know they oppose any attempts to eliminate collective bargaining rights of our workers. Given the legislation introduced just this week, this appeal is more important than ever.

On the same day legislators approved SB 7, which capped public employers' health insurance contributions and shifted thousands of dollars in benefit costs to public employees, it also rammed through two bills increasing the cost of health insurance for all Michigan citizens, including those same public employees.

AYP results released this week are posted on the new education information website, MI School Data.

Just days after the state Board of Education asked the U.S. Department of Education for a waiver on No Child Left Behind testing standards so Michigan could boost student proficiency on state assessments, federal education officials announced they’ll waive the rule that calls for states to have 100 percent of students proficient on state tests by 2014.

Jeb Bush continued to spread the story of the “Florida miracle” in a press conference with Gov. Snyder after his presentation to a joint meeting of the Senate and House Education committees.