Why would ANYONE want to be a teacher in Michigan???

Last month, I wrote about the latest attack on teachers in Michigan, an effort to strip benefits and cut into their pensions. Facing an unfunded liability of over $45 billion, Michigan Republicans are set to take it out of the hides of teachers with Senate Bill 1040. The bill will take $380 million from teachers in the first year alone and reduce the unfunded liability by $7.6 billion (Senate analysis HERE.)

The Michigan Education Associate (MEA) has a good analysis of the bill HERE and HERE. They note that this effort is in addition to the 3% increase in teachers’ contributions to their health insurance enacted in 2009.…