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OnMilwaukee.com
Cocoon Room spreads its creative wings
OnMilwaukee.com
Cocoon Room spreads its creative wings. By Molly Snyder · RSS Feed · Twitter Feed ... The goal of the group is to provide artists and musicians a space to share and sell their work as well as provide educational outreach to the community. Cocoon Room ...

Philly.com
Council committee approves bill that would help schools - Philly.com
Philly.com
Corbett that we deserve better and the time for action is now," said Sharron Snyder, a junior at Benjamin Franklin High School. "We are fed up with the budget cuts. We are fed up with more money going to prisons than to schools. We are fed up having to ...

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Michigan's $483M Surplus May Go To Road Repairs
CBS Local
Cut taxes. Save more for when times get bad. Pay off debts and liabilities. “The feeding frenzy has begun,” House Speaker Jase Bolger said. “Everyone under the sun has new ideas and new ways to spend this money.” Gov. Rick Snyder's administration and ...

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Council committee approves bill that would help schools - Philly.com
Philly.com
Corbett that we deserve better and the time for action is now," said Sharron Snyder, a junior at Benjamin Franklin High School. "We are fed up with the budget cuts. We are fed up with more money going to prisons than to schools. We are fed up having to ...

Philly.com
Council committee approves bill that would help schools - Philly.com
Philly.com
Corbett that we deserve better and the time for action is now," said Sharron Snyder, a junior at Benjamin Franklin High School. "We are fed up with the budget cuts. We are fed up with more money going to prisons than to schools. We are fed up having to ...

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3 seek to unseat incumbent in North Versailles Township
Tribune-Review
Anthony Romagna, a junior from Steel Valley, and John Hammerle, a sophomore from Bethel Park, were among approximately 50 Steel Center Area Vocational Technical students who gathered Friday to assemble in a record 25 minutes a 75-foot Italian hoagie ...

What can Dems pick up? - City Pulse
City Pulse
Whether it's cutting education by $1 billion to pay for a business tax cut, changing course on Right to Work or weakening environmental protections, Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is motivating Democrats. “There is not one constituency in Michigan that ...

Letters: Muskegon schools budget issues can be traced to state lawmakers
MLive.com
Rick Snyder and the Republican-led state Legislature which enacted these cuts. The national and statewide Republican Party vendetta on education has come home to our community, with real consequences that our neighborhood children will suffer.

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Pennsylvania cyber charter schools rally to oppose funding cuts
Sacramento Bee
The Snyders enrolled their daughter Sarah, 9, and son Kenneth, 7, this year in PA Cyber because, Linda said, her classroom school was unable to stop her daughter from being bullied. "I was in the office 12 times last year," Linda said. Last year, while ...

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Pennsylvania cyber charter schools rally to oppose funding cuts
Wall Street Journal (press release)
The Snyders enrolled their daughter Sarah, 9, and son Kenneth, 7, this year in PA Cyber because, Linda said, her classroom school was unable to stop her daughter from being bullied. "I was in the office 12 times last year," Linda said. Last year, while ...

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Pennsylvania cyber charter schools rally to oppose funding cuts
PR Newswire (press release)
The Snyders enrolled their daughter Sarah, 9, and son Kenneth, 7, this year in PA Cyber because, Linda said, her classroom school was unable to stop her daughter from being bullied. "I was in the office 12 times last year," Linda said. Last year, while ...

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The Nation. (blog)
What You Should Know About the Philly Student Walkout
The Nation. (blog)
“It's time that the City Council and Governor Corbett started listening to students,” says Sharron Snyder, a junior at Benjamin Franklin High School and an organizer with the Philadelphia Student Union. “If they spent even one day in my school, they ...

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Possible Dem challengers Mark Schauer, Vicki Barnett target governor's tax ...
MLive.com
Rick Snyder. While the next year and a half will force plenty of audibles, the early plays are derived from the governor's first two years in office and focus on potential soft spots in the defense: Right to work, tax code changes and education funding ...

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Group pushes to restore Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit WITH VIDEO
Dearborn Press and Guide
Their website, saveourEITC.com, estimates the 70 percent cut in the state Earned Income Tax Credit from $439 to $112. Averages vary from county to county. In southeast ... Democrats want more money for public education and to repeal tax increases or ...

World Socialist Web Site
How it happened: Buena Vista School District sees decades of decline in ...
The Saginaw News
The Michigan Department of Education said it would withhold state aid payments for a minimum of April, May and June because the district took $401,962.51 to educate students from the Wolverine Secure Treatment Center, a private juvenile detention ...
Steve Cook: This is what happens when you put businesses before our kids ...Detroit Free Press
Schools in Buena Vista, Michigan may reopen after board approves cutsWorld Socialist Web Site
As some Michigan schools remain closed, many more face budget woesMSNBC
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Surplus may go to road repairs
Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
Rick Snyder's administration and legislative economists agreed on a tax revenue forecast Wednesday that shows Michigan is expected to get an estimated $483 more than expected in January for the fiscal year ending in 4 1/2 months. That surplus ... Of ...

Surplus may go to road repairs
Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
Rick Snyder's administration and legislative economists agreed on a tax revenue forecast Wednesday that shows Michigan is expected to get an estimated $483 more than expected in January for the fiscal year ending in 4 1/2 months. That surplus ... Of ...

Detroit Mayor Election 2013 Has 22 Candidates, Though Powers Reduced ...
Huffington Post
Rick Snyder, who hired him. "They are left to their own devices to a degree." Orr was hired by the state in March after Snyder deemed Bing's pace was too slow. Under state law, Orr has 18 months – or until late September 2014 – on the job before ...

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$483-million tax windfall brightens Michigan's budget picture
Detroit Free Press
Democrats and various interest groups spent much of Wednesday talking about how the money can be spent to improve education and help people still suffering as Michigan records its fourth year of recovery after a decade-long recession. Budget Director ...

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Panelists: Education reform is needed
Hometownlife.com
Passed by voters in 1994, Proposal A was used to reform school financing and cut-and-cap property taxes. It restricts school ... Bill Rustem, with Gov. Snyder's office, said Lansing's goal remains to provide public education, but improvements are needed.