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Mitch Marcus

“Most teachers can’t afford to live here now”

Anger mounts as Ann Arbor Public School board prepares cuts

Teachers, parents and community members in Ann Arbor gathered this week at city-wide meeting speaking out against layoffs and attacks on public education.

Luke Galvin, Mitch Marcus

“The decision to reopen schools shouldn’t be political. It should be made by medical experts.”

Teachers speak out against Trump’s push to reopen schools

The WSWS spoke with two teachers about the dangerous push by the Trump administration to reopen schools in the fall as the COVID-19 pandemic spirals out of control.

Mitch Marcus, Kimie Saito

Eastern Michigan University axes non-tenured faculty

Eastern Michigan University issued layoff notices to ten of its eleven full-time non-tenured faculty in the College of Education, some of whom have been with the university for decades.

Mitch Marcus

University of Michigan lays off hundreds

The University of Michigan announced that 325 staff would be laid off and made to reapply for their jobs, only 275 of whom would be “rehired.”

Mitch Marcus

Michigan cuts teacher health care, pensions

Last week the Michigan state legislature passed a bill that strips retirement health care from all newly hired teachers and greatly increases the cost of their pensions while setting in motion plans to altogether eliminate them.

Mitch Marcus

Tent camp reveals social inequality in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Last week, a WSWS team visited Camp Take Notice, a homeless encampment in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to speak with residents and document conditions. The tent camp is home to about 35 people.

Mitch Marcus, Janel Flechsig