Local Democrats Slam House Republican Education Funding Bill
Representatives say the state should restore nearly $1 billion cut last year from K-12 funding.
A group of Michigan House Democrats gathered in Southfield this morning to level charges that Republican lawmakers and Republican Gov. Rick Snyder are leaving school children behind when it comes to funding education. During a press conference held at University Academy, a school for gifted and talented students on the Southfield High campus, lawmakers said the proposed budget continues a $470 per pupil funding cut currently in place. What's more, they said, the omnibus legislation lacks transparency and makes it more difficult for citizens to see exactly how tax dollars are being allocated. State Rep. Ellen Cogen Lipton (D-Huntington Woods), who is minority vice chair with appropriations subcommittees on school aid and community …
DCC
4:41 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Really Terry? You cite an average as counter to Reagan - the largest number of debt ceiling increases; Bush II - near doubling of the debt limit? That's rather lame. more ›