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TheAlternativePress.com (press release) (blog)
Millburn School Officials Present Possible Budget Cut Priorities; Board ...
TheAlternativePress.com (press release) (blog)
Crisfield proposed the following cuts to bring about savings in the baseline budget first presented to the school body on Jan. 14: • Save $60,000 each by not hiring a 0.4 full-time equivalent related arts chairman at the high school and a 0.4 full-time ...

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FOX FUELS UP FOR FEBRUARY!
MyFox Wausau
Although his mother and a few close friends saw him as intelligent with poor social skills, the team discovers that this seemingly innocent boy was actually involved in illegal activity and had attended a high school party two weeks prior where drugs ...

Washtenaw County's freshmen lawmakers land key legislative assignments in ...
AnnArbor.com
In that capacity, Zemke will be a member of the Department of Education subcommittee and will be the Democratic vice chairman of the Joint Capital Outlay and Community Colleges subcommittees. "I believe that the state's budget is a reflection of our ...

Push to dismantle public education behind plan to close another 28 Detroit schools
World Socialist Web Site
Or is it with the suburban school districts, who are also cutting teachers and programs for students, face the spread of charters and entities like the EAA, which the Snyder and the Michigan state legislature are seeking to expand into suburban school ...

ISO offers sophistry in the service of the trade union bureaucracy
World Socialist Web Site
After decades of collaboration with the auto companies in imposing layoffs, wage cuts and speedup, the UAW proved incapable of rallying any significant support among auto workers to oppose the right-wing attack by Republican Governor Rick Snyder and ...

Hornell post office takes name of fallen Marine
Corning Leader
We must always remember them, honor the sacrifice of their families, and ensure that all our veterans have economic and educational opportunities when they return home.” Hornell Mayor Shawn Hogan thanked the federal legislators for their efforts to ...

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TheAlternativePress.com (press release) (blog)
Closing of Budget 'Gap', Use of Surplus, Future Role of M-SPEC, Dominate ...
TheAlternativePress.com (press release) (blog)
Birnberg added, considering the expectations of Millburn parents for the high-performing district, the education body has strived to make every cut possible while “trying to maintain the integrity of our educational system within the constraints under ...

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TheAlternativePress.com (press release) (blog)
Woman Fatally Injured After Being Struck by Train at Short Hills Station on ...
TheAlternativePress.com (press release) (blog)
According to New Jersey transit spokeswoman Nancy Snyder, the engineer on the Dover-bound train, which approached Short Hills about 10 p.m., saw the woman on the tracks, sounded the train's emergency horn and applied the emergency brake. ... Millburn ...

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Hallmark hits the right, light tone with 'The Makeover'
Kenosha News (subscription)
Tonight, ABC is showing the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie “The Makeover.” Since this is airing on a network, we expect it to be a cut above the movies made for the cable Hallmark Channel. And it is ... Hannah does have a noble goal — getting him elected ...

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UNLV to split with Singapore education partner
UNLV The Rebel Yell
The source said that if UNLV Singapore is struggling financially, the proper procedure is to look into whether faculty salary could be cut instead of immediately demanding more money from SIT. However, Snyder said that the inconvenience of the program ...

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Sunday's top story: Coshocton County fire departments make grade for response
Coshocton Tribune
“Ninety-eight percent of the time we're able to get out of the building in less than two minutes,” Snyder said. Like River View Local School District, Walhonding Valley Fire District has one of the largest coverage areas in the state. The fire district ...

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More Preschool Spending Not The Answer
Michigan Capitol Confidential
While road funding has absorbed a lot of the political oxygen, a consensus is forming that the state needs to spend more money on K-12 education — including substantially more on early childhood schooling. But the facts don't follow that ... Rick ...

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Grand Haven Tribune
Snyder eyes mental health makeover
Grand Haven Tribune
Rick Snyder's plan to fill the gaps of Michigan's mental health care system might lie in his ability to convince lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to expand Medicaid to provide 500,000 Michigan residents with coverage under the federal Affordable ...

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Michigan in Brief: 01/27/2013
Traverse City Record Eagle
The Fleming School was a Michigan State historic site and vintage schoolhouse renovated in the 1990s for use by Howell schoolchildren. Howell Deputy Fire Chief Ron Hicks calls it a "total loss. ... Rick Snyder has declared an energy emergency in the ...

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Guest column, Theresa Abed: It's not what to do, but how
Lansing State Journal
Having been a school social worker for over 30 years I know first-hand this is a dire need. Because of cuts in funding these types of supports have been eliminated in many schools. Gov. Snyder also called on legislators to expand the Education ...

Is your life perfect enough?
Irish Independent
It's not just about beauty: this constant hunger for perfection, this obsession with striving. We worship striving and strivers – the cut-and-thrusters who get ahead, who are never content to stop shoving forwards, upwards, towards more and better and ...