Snyder's Education Cuts

AP Interview: Schauer sounding like gov. candidate
Albany Times Union
Rick Snyder's decisions — including to cut taxes for businesses and raise them for individuals — combined with recent support from fellow Democrats, have him taking a hard look at running in 2014. A recent memorandum prepared for the ... "We know in ...

San Francisco Chronicle
AP Interview: Schauer sounding like gov. candidate
San Francisco Chronicle
Rick Snyder's decisions — including to cut taxes for businesses and raise them for individuals — combined with recent support from fellow Democrats, have him taking a hard look at running in 2014. A recent memorandum prepared for the ... "We know in ...

Author reads with DC students, then writes about them
Washington Post (blog)
Authors who have recently participated include Terry McMillan, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ben Fountain, Susan Coll and Susan Richards Shreve. In October, best-selling crime novelist George Pelecanos visited Cardozo Senior High School in Northwest and read a ...

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Budget surpluses spur tension in some GOP states
The Idaho Statesman
After winning majorities in more than half the statehouses on principled platforms of making government smaller, Perry, Snyder and other and Republicans who control a majority of the state capitols in the United States are facing a philosophical ...

Budget Surpluses Spur Tension In Some GOP States
NPR
Only a few states still face budget difficulties several years after the Great Recession forced widespread cuts to public education and social services, according to a new report by the National Conference of State Legislatures. To the contrary, a ...

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The Republic
AP Interview: Schauer, nearing bid for governor, criticizes Snyder's 'flawed ...
The Republic
Rick Snyder's decisions — including to cut taxes for businesses and raise them for individuals — combined with recent support from fellow Democrats, have him taking a hard look at running in 2014. A recent memorandum prepared for the Democratic ...

Goodrich eyes teacher layoffs and privatization in cost-saving discussions
The Flint Journal - MLive.com
Rick Snyder, state House and Senate lawmakers would at best keep funding flat during the next fiscal year. “In the course of the last four years, we have spent in excess of two million in that rainy day fund,” said Bogner, noting cuts in funding and ...

Steve Cook: This is what happens when you put businesses before our kids ...
Detroit Free Press
Rick Snyder's massive cuts to school funding have been a topic of political conversation for two years, but last week, we saw two examples of how these reckless decisions hurt kids. Buena Vista received devastating news — their district had no more ...
Schools in Buena Vista, Michigan may reopen after board approves cutsWorld Socialist Web Site
How it happened: Buena Vista School District sees decades of decline in ...The Saginaw News

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Author reads with DC students, then writes about them
Washington Post
Authors who have recently participated include Terry McMillan, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ben Fountain, Susan Coll and Susan Richards Shreve. In October, best-selling crime novelist George Pelecanos visited Cardozo Senior High School in Northwest and read a ...

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Michigan corrections training funds face major cut
Battle Creek Enquirer
Rick Snyder asked the Legislature to appropriate $9 million in 2014 to train as many as 400 new officers through the state-run academy, giving time for the college certification programs to get off the ground. However, in bills adopted by the House and ...

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Michigan district closes all schools, fires all teachers
Press TV
The MEA contends that students are "innocent victims of gross financial mismanagement by district and state administrators, as well as Governor Rick Snyder's reckless $1 billion in cuts to school funding." Buena Vista teachers had agreed to freeze ...

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Relentless, positive discussion: Gov. Rick Snyder sits down with Sentinel
HollandSentinel.com
He talked Medicaid, roads, education — and what he called the “broken political culture.” This is the full .... SNYDER “Well, one, we had a huge budget deficit, so in the context of budget — other than the first year when we had the billion-and-a ...

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School union denounces pension reforms - The Philadelphia Tribune!
The Philadelphia Tribune
Pension reform has direct implications in the public education realm, as pension payments – along with the slicing of the statewide education budget and the administration's general lack of movement regarding extra funds sorely needed by the School ...

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Calendar: May 10-16
Grand Junction Sentinel
Jazz for Education, fundraiser organized by Palisade High School student Josh Anders, 7 p.m., Palisade High School, features bands from six schools, proceeds go to eliminate funding deficiencies in School District 51 band programs, . .... a.m., Fine ...

Pontiac schools likely to miss payroll next week, state says
The Detroit News
The shortfall grew to $12.2 million in 2010, $24.5 million in 2011 and $37.7 million in 2012, in spite of proposals to reduce expenses, cut wages, trim staffing and sell buildings. The funding gap is expected to continue to grow through 2014 ... Senate ...

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Those pushing school reform have never been in a classroom
People's World
It has responded with a slew of bills to cuts wages, benefits, and union dues deduction and push private, for-profit schools that rely on online teachers, not teachers in the classroom. The Brenda Scott Academy is part of Educational ... Also worrying ...

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The Late Rev. Dr. William Richard Tolbert, Jr. As I Interacted
AllAfrica.com
With the gradual acquirement of solid foundational British-American education at the Belle Public School (BPS), under the watchful eyes of the late Principal David Sirleaf Gray, where the involvement of students in dramatic plays, learning to read and ...

Nancy Kaffer: Common Core standards make sense
Livingston Daily
... Program; the national test paints a much less rosy picture of educational achievement. That's why, in 2011, Michigan adjusted the “cut scores” (the cutoff at which students are deemed to have passed) for the MEAP. ... Rick Snyder has used to ...

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Officials scramble to save school year for Saginaw County district
The Detroit News
She said the district knew they needed to cut the deficit for three years. The district, on the outskirts of Saginaw, closed its doors three days ago and state and district leaders spent much of Thursday ... Snyder said the lengthy process for ...

6 seats up for grab on Perkiomen Valley School Board
The Mercury
According to Snyder, the board controlled only a “very small sliver” of district costs. “We cut all of the easy things to cut a long time ago,” she said. Snyder also expressed reservations about relying too heavily on standardized tests. While such ...

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