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Corbett Supports Landmark Legislation for Pension Reform
Sacramento Bee
The legislation rebalances the state's obligations to both pension funds and the general fund. It also provides short-term budgetary relief to avoid deep cuts in core services and programs offset by long-term reforms that produce an overall savings to ...

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Corbett Supports Landmark Legislation for Pension Reform
Wall Street Journal
The legislation rebalances the state's obligations to both pension funds and the general fund. It also provides short-term budgetary relief to avoid deep cuts in core services and programs offset by long-term reforms that produce an overall savings to ...

Officials to cut the line on liveaboard
Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
Scott Snyder, the county parks department's maintenance coordinator for Vashon, said he believes liveaboards' boats are often leaky and in bad repair. ... “Ninety-nine percent of enforcement comes through education and warnings,” he said. “We like to ...

World Socialist Web Site
Duncan in Detroit: EAA opponents should calm down
The Detroit News (blog)
Rick Snyder. Michigan Democrats could take a lesson from Duncan. A Democrat, Duncan has supported new efforts in Michigan to improve the lowest-performing schools. And that includes the Education Achievement Authority (EAA), the statewide turnaround ...
Obama education secretary, Michigan governor promote school “reform”World Socialist Web Site

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Snyder's-Lance Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call ...
Seeking Alpha
And most exciting, we are supporting our Snyder's of Hanover brand with a new TV advertising campaign starting this month. Now turning to Cape Cod. We've had a lot of innovation in our Cape Cod products over the past year, with products like our waffle ...

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Buena Vista teachers said they'd work for free before layoffs, next step uncertain
The Saginaw News
“When politicians and pundits claim public education is broken and blame teachers as the cause — especially those like Gov. Snyder and others who voted for his massive school funding cuts — we will remind them of this day. “And we will remind them ...

Corbett Supports Landmark Legislation for Pension Reform
Wall Street Journal (press release)
The legislation rebalances the state's obligations to both pension funds and the general fund. It also provides short-term budgetary relief to avoid deep cuts in core services and programs offset by long-term reforms that produce an overall savings to ...

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Labor belabored: MEA losing members, losing fights; will it lose its grip?
MLive.com
Rick Snyder, who is promising a continued major overhaul of public education. “We are the only one with the collective power to fight .... The union, like the school districts it negotiates with, has cut staffing, too. Its current work force of 250 is ...
Long-simmering GOP-MEA 'war' intensifies going into 2014Bridge Michigan

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Bridge Michigan
Long-simmering GOP-MEA 'war' intensifies going into 2014
Bridge Michigan
Rick Snyder's education agenda, which has hit the MEA by requiring public workers to pay more for health care, making it harder for the union to collect dues, dismantled teacher tenure and stressed more teacher accountability for student success. In ...

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World Socialist Web Site
Obama education secretary, Michigan governor promote school “reform”
World Socialist Web Site
President Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan joined Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder on Monday to promote the attack on teachers and public education being carried out under the guise of school “reform.” In appearances at public schools ...

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Radar: Making The Connections, Gun Outfit, TRB's Canadian History Gala ...
blogTO (blog)
Examining issues like food, income, housing, education, health care access and neighbourhood, the show looks at larger factors that are interconnected with health. Jo Snyder will introduce the exhibit at 7 PM tonight at Urbanspace before Aziza Mahamoud ...

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The Nuns Not on the Bus
Religion & Politics
Over lunch, I talked with a group including Sister Maxine Snyder, the current president. She joined the congregation in 1960, right after graduating from a Sisters of St. Joseph high school in North Adams, Mass. Four years later, her twin sisters also ...

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The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
Jackson Public Schools is estimating a $2.2 million shortfall in 2013-14 budget
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
Gov. Rick Snyder's budget proposal for 2013-14 also shifts community colleges and universities into the school aid budget, which leaves less for K-12 public schools, Hannon said. State cuts to per-student aid have resulted in a loss of nearly $6.5 ...

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Tax money should go where it's supposed to
Tuscola Today
Closing the schools is a better plan than taking the funding that is supposed to go to schools and then telling the schools there is insufficient funding so more cuts are in order. By closing the schools, all districts, charters, and online education ...

The Saginaw News - MLive.com
MEA could take 'judicial action' to ensure Buena Vista School District ...
The Saginaw News - MLive.com
MEA officials met with Buena Vista Education Association members at the Saginaw and Bay City teachers union office in Monitor Township to "determine what happens next in the district that is suffering due to the damaging mix of Gov. Snyder's budget ...

Creative Time Reports
Tamms Is Torture: The Campaign to Close an Illinois Supermax Prison
Creative Time Reports
The consequences of isolation were predictable: many men fell into severe depression, experienced hallucinations, compulsively cut their bodies or attempted suicide. The first men at Tamms were transferred there from other .... Shown from left to right ...

Local panel: Medicaid enhancement will help county, Michigan grow
New Baltimore Voice Newspapers
... and retain county services, said Bohm. Gov. Rick Snyder expects the expansion to funnel $20 billion in federal money into the Michigan economy through 2023, which will mean plenty of new jobs in health care, one of the few robust areas of the state ...

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County's preschool funding headed for increase (with video)
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
Nationwide, state funding for pre-kindergarten programs decreased by more than half a billion dollars in 2011-2012 nationwide and enrollment has dropped, according to a new study from the National Institute for Early Education Research. RELATED ASSETS ...

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Building a better budget for Michigan
Livingston Daily
It's hard to imagine why anyone would want to cut the budget of the state Department of Human Services. That's the agency that administers the state's foster-care program, along with a host of other crucial ... Both houses of the Legislature and Snyder ...

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Cadillac News (subscription)
Local superintendents talk about the future of their profession
Cadillac News (subscription)
On the positive side, it appears the drastic financial cuts we've seen in education in the past several years may not be what occurs this year. Time will tell ... I would put the Snyder administration in the second category and the Obama administration ...