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Lenawee ISD Opens High-Tech Education Showplace
CBS Local
It will also offer advanced education in everything from biochemistry to floriculture to ornamental horticulture to the culinary arts. Guest speaker Valerie Brader, deputy legal counsel and senior policy adviser to Gov. Rick Snyder, probably put it ...

GOP governors take a pragmatic turn
KSPR
John Kasich of Ohio and Rick Snyder of Michigan. Each leads a state that ... With Obama and Republicans in Congress at loggerheads over $85 billion in mandatory spending cuts set to take place Friday, governors from both parties are encouraging a deal ...

In Celebration of Teachers
Mesquite Citizen Journal
Lawmakers know that when there are budget cuts to make, they can start with education because teachers will show up and keep the doors open. If they cut the military out of weapons, they will lose. If they turn the water off in the fire station ...

DRISKELL: New budget does little to mitigate drastic education cuts from past ...
Heritage Newspapers
Any increase in education funding is good, and that's why I voted for it. However, this budget does little to reverse the more than $470 per-pupil cut in funding in the last two years. Therefore, our schools continue to struggle with too large class ...

Zack Snyder discusses how he approached the apocalyptic action of 'Man Of Steel'
HitFix
There's a reverse cut to Clark, staggering as he tries to get his legs under him, and there's some debris in the background that rolls to a stop. It's just a touch, something almost subliminal in how it registers, but it sells the nitty gritty reality ...

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Retirement costs gobble school funding hike
Port Huron Times Herald
The education budget was passed by the Senate last week. It has been sent to Gov. Rick Snyder for his signature. Last year, lawmakers approved legislation that capped the contribution, increased employee contributions and prefunded retiree health care ...

Retirement costs gobble school funding hike
Port Huron Times Herald
The education budget was passed by the Senate last week. It has been sent to Gov. Rick Snyder for his signature. Last year, lawmakers approved legislation that capped the contribution, increased employee contributions and prefunded retiree health care ...

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Tinkering with Tradition Part Two: Ouster of Old Homestead at Wayne farmer's ...
Main Line
Sam Peters, Old Homestead stand manager, and some of his 15 staffers (and their tenures): Ellen Casey of Bryn Mawr, one year; Liz Coppa of Malvern, six years; Jennie Gerlach of Lancaster, 27 years; and Denisa Snyder of Ronks, off and on for 40 years ...

DRISKELL: New budget does little to mitigate drastic education cuts from past ...
Heritage Newspapers
Any increase in education funding is good, and that's why I voted for it. However, this budget does little to reverse the more than $470 per-pupil cut in funding in the last two years. Therefore, our schools continue to struggle with too large class ...

Wayne-Westland expects continued drop in state aid
Hometownlife.com
“The people of Michigan deserve a budget that provides real solutions to the problems our schools are facing, and the budget passed in the Senate simply doesn't make the cut.” Snyder, however, said the education of Michigan's youth is a top priority ...

Arthur Laffer's dynamic roadshow
The American Independent
Rick Snyder. Those policies, Laffer insists, spark the sort of explosions in population, economic growth, and revenue seen in some states with conservative tax regimes. But according to his sparring partners at ITEP, Laffer's claims don't add up ...

Invasive plant thrives in Schuylkill County
Republican & Herald
Commonly called "fleeceflower," "huzhang" or "monsterweed" according to Patrick M. "Porcupine Pat" McKinney, educational coordinator for the Schuylkill Conservation District, Japanese knotweed has been in the county for decades. However, it is only in ...

Tassels turned for NBHS seniors
New Bern Sun Journal
That cut the chance of a downpour on the ceremony but it also cut the number of people who could come, and doors were monitored to allow only those with tickets inside. “It was a great year; you are a great class.” Marsh, a 1964 New Bern High School ...

Tassels turned for NBHS seniors
New Bern Sun Journal
That cut the chance of a downpour on the ceremony but it also cut the number of people who could come, and doors were monitored to allow only those with tickets inside. “It was a great year; you are a great class.” Marsh, a 1964 New Bern High School ...

Indiana Public Media
Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers
nwitimes.com
In Ivy Tech's 2011-12 financial report, President Tom Snyder described the statewide college system's financial position as strong and noted an 11 percent increase in state appropriations. In fact, state support for Ivy Tech has increased by 50 percent ...
Ivy Tech still short after tuition hikeFort Wayne Journal Gazette

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Murch: Smart people need to get it fixed now
Alpena News
Everyone knows how local schools are struggling and making cuts, hoping to stay in the black or, more likely, not plunge further into the red. In the last month or so Buena Vista ... Rick Snyder? He blamed dropping enrollment and bad financial planners ...

Indiana Governor Mike Pence Pays a Visit to Portage
PortageLife
Portage Mayor James Snyder hosted a special luncheon on Wednesday in honor of a special guest. Governor Mike Pence, the ... It also included the largest state tax cut in Indiana history and significant investments in roads and education. So we've begun ...

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Pennsylvania Cyber School Facing Potential Funding Cut
WHAG
"A lot of the times the teacher would be talking and I would get the concept and I wanted to go and do my own thing after that and with this I can," says Hope Snyder, another cyber school student. But if funding is cut, cyber school officials say it ...

State AFL-CIO president: Workers will respond in 2014 election season
Hometownlife.com
Rick Snyder and Republican lawmakers gave a prelude of what was to come with right- to-work with what she described as “attacks” on local contracts, public sector collective bargaining rights, increased taxes on pensions, cuts in public education ...

DRISKELL: New budget does little to mitigate drastic education cuts from past ...
Heritage Newspapers
Any increase in education funding is good, and that's why I voted for it. However, this budget does little to reverse the more than $470 per-pupil cut in funding in the last two years. Therefore, our schools continue to struggle with too large class ...

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