Snyder's Education Cuts

Citizen Standard
Bell rings . . . learning continues after school
Citizen Standard
TOWER CITY - When the end-of-the-day school bell rings, sixth-grade friends Patrice Stakem and Hailey Snyder don't normally head straight home. As participants in a special after school program at Williams Valley Elementary School, the pair catches up ...

What School Activities Could Be Axed?
Patch.com
Also during that presentation, he outlined proposed activity and athletic cuts at all three levels — elementary, middle and high school. The proposed cuts would save the district a shade ... Snyder got applause after he spoke. School Board President ...

New movies: Summer at the cinema
Hopkinton Crier
The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Acclaimed Indian director Mira Nair (“Monsoon Wedding,” “The Namesake”) ventures past the border into Pakistan to tell a haunting tale about an American-educated Muslim (sensational Riz Ahmed) flirting with the idea of ...

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Lakeville Superintendent Looks to Voters to Rescue 'Extremely Lean' School ...
Patch.com
With a projected $5 million to $7 million budget deficit for the 2014-15 school year, Lisa Snyder, the superintendent of Lakeville Area Public Schools, feels that District 194's financial situation is dire, and she's appealing directly to voters ...

Dave Bing, Detroit Mayor, Begins Process To Run For Re-election
Huffington Post
Rick Snyder in March. Under state law, he has the ability to fire city officials. His term will end in less than two years. "We work well together," Bing said in a press conference Thursday, adding that he understands Orr has "the final say." Bing has ...

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WWMT-TV
Retired generals: Support early education funding
WWMT-TV
Rick Snyder's proposed budget calls for an additional $130 million over the next two years the Great Start Readiness Program, including $65 million in fiscal year 2014. ... UNDATED (AP) -- It's prom season and the class of 2013 isn't going cut rate ...

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NEW MOVIES: Summer at the cinema
Enterprise News
The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Acclaimed Indian director Mira Nair (“Monsoon Wedding,” “The Namesake”) ventures past the border into Pakistan to tell a haunting tale about an American-educated Muslim (sensational Riz Ahmed) flirting with the idea of ...

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Citizen Standard
Fixing the problems of the environment
Citizen Standard
TOWER CITY - When the end-of-the-day school bell rings, sixth-grade friends Patrice Stakem and Hailey Snyder don't normally head straight home. As participants in a special after school program at Williams Valley Elementary School, the pair catches up ...

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Goodrich votes to layoff 19 teachers, other cuts on table
Grandblancview
“If you think it's (education) gutted now, wait until he (Gov. Rick Snyder) get his hands on it. We don't want to do it.” Similar sentiments were echoed by all the board members who are attempting to make up for a shrinking fund balance and anticipated ...

Governor Snyder's education plan opens debate in Traverse City
UpNorthLive.com
TRAVERSE CITY -- Governor Snyder's new education plan is sparking discussions across the state. Representatives from the board of education and local superintendents held a forum in traverse city to address concerns Wednesday night. Snyder's plan ...

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How the GOP learned to love taxes
The Albany Herald
But state economic growth has not kept up with even the reduced (after cuts) cost of state services, such as infrastructure, health and education. Revenue must be found, and Republican governors are realizing it can only be found in taxes. Hence ...

Best of Santa Cruz County
Good Times
(As an aside—so is bathing, washing one's hair, and cutting off your pony tail and stepping into the here and now, to which I will say this: Men with pony tails from 1988—relax, you are still loved.) We need to crack the whip more; manifest ...

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Spring events in full swing
The Reporter
*North Penn High School Theatre will be presenting Elton John and Tim Rice's rock opera “Aida (School Edition)” at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the auditorium at North Penn High School, 1340 Valley Forge Road, Towamencin ...

Lakeville school superintendent to make pitch for additional local funding
Pioneer Press
Snyder's message is clear: Without new taxpayer support, Lakeville schools will need to make drastic cuts in the near future. District officials project a $5 million to $7 million budget shortfall for the 2014-15 school year. "We want to talk to the ...

Christian Science Monitor
Donna Brazile: GOP seeing taxes as answer
Battle Creek Enquirer
Rick Snyder has proposed a major tax increase. Although Michigan's automotive ... But state economic growth has not kept up with even the reduced (after cuts) cost of state services, such as infrastructure, health and education. (Page 2 of 2). Revenue ...
Commentary: How the GOP learned to stop worrying and love taxesElko Daily Free Press

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WXYZ
State House fires first salvo in budget battle
Detroit Free Press
Rick Snyder. The House of Representatives approved the state's two omnibus budgets today: one covering all of the education-related fiscal plans, and the other dealing with the rest of state government. The Senate began moving budgets today and will ...
Movie incentives, Medicaid among unresolved issues as Michigan lawmakers ...MLive.com
Michigan Legislature Starts Passing Budget PlansCBS Local
Michigan budget plans moving forwardLansing State Journal
Businessweek
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WXYZ
Movie incentives, Medicaid among unresolved issues as Michigan lawmakers ...
MLive.com
Plans from Snyder and the Senate would keep those facilities open. The Senate and Snyder plans seek to avoid caseworker cuts if they would result in problems complying with a court-ordered agreement related to child services. Education funding: ...
State House fires first salvo in budget battleDetroit Free Press
Michigan Legislature Starts Passing Budget PlansCBS Local
Michigan House drops penalties for labor contractsBusinessweek

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State Rep. Rudy Hobbs: Focus on Michigan families, not the state's credit rating
Detroit Free Press
It's easy to raise credit ratings when you raise taxes on middle-class families and seniors by $1.4 billion, while cutting funding to local communities by $163 million and raiding our school-aid fund of $2 billion. All the while, the governor and ...

WDIV Detroit
Michigan House drops penalties for labor contracts
Businessweek
(AP) — The Republican-led Michigan House on Tuesday dropped plans to punish public universities, school districts and local governments that signed unusually long labor contracts before the state's right-to-work law took effect. The decision by House ...
State House drops penalty on schools that ducked right to workDetroit Free Press

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on 'skunk works' education group: 'Their idea is ...
MLive.com
Rick Snyder thinks concepts developed by "project skunk works" pass the smell test. The governor, speaking Tuesday night during a virtual town hall meeting, suggested public uproar over private meetings by a group working to develop a low-cost school ...