Michigan watchdog Education Action Group (EAG) is calling attention to the lobbying activities of the Michigan Education Association (MEA). Not only was the teachers union the single largest special interest — measured by its lobbying dollars — in the state capital of Lansing, it also seems to spend its lobbying energies on legislation that doesn’t have much to do with actual students, as an analysis by EAG blogger Kyle Olson suggests.
Michigan Education Association: Dishing it out “for the kids”
Posted on Feb 22, 2008 by Jon Berry