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Bayer: Public Schools Deserve Better than Betsy DeVos
LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-Beverly Hills)issued the following statement today after Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a multi-state legal challenge to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s recent rule changethat reroutes...
Michigan senator seeks to end ‘revolving door’ of lawmakers turned lobbyists
Sen. Rosemary Bayer, a freshman Democratic state senator from Beverly Hills, is a co-sponsor of Runestad’s latest bill. She said the relationship between lobbyists and legislators is "too tight" and a function of strict legislative term limits....
Lt. Governor Addresses Groves Students at MLK Assembly
Wylie E. Groves High School is proud to have welcomed Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II on Jan. 16, 2019 as he addressed the student body as keynote speaker at the school’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assembly. This year’s assembly included: A...
Oakland County Electeds Respond to Governor’s State of the State Speech
State Senator Rosemary Bayer of Beverly Hills chimed in on another hot topic – the roads. “Michiganders deserve safe roads to their schools, offices, businesses and homes. It’s time we fix our roads. Michigan drivers have been paying more in taxes at the pump and for...
State lawmakers make water their priority
State Sen. Rosemary Bayer, D-Beverly Hills, and U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-District 14, proposed efforts last month that they said would provide clean water for residents and students. They addressed different issues, including clean water as a state constitutional...
Michigan cut school funding and school performance plummeted. Coincidence?
Michigan ranks dead last in the nation in school funding growth in the quarter century since Michigan radically changed how it funded public education system, according to a new Michigan State University study....
Robotics team kicks off new season
After travelling to the FIRST World Championships last year to flex their scientific muscles through robotics, Oxford High School’s TORC 2137 robotics team kicked off a new season on Jan. 5 with another world championships appearance this spring on their minds....
Michigan’s 100th legislature gains women, scientists
Other new members of the House and Senate whose biographies list a science- or technology-related background include Representative-elect Padma Kuppa (D-Troy), Senator-elect Rosemary Bayer (D-Pontiac), Senator-elect John Bizon (R-Battle Creek), and Senator-elect Lana...