Bloomberg Budget Will Seek Thousands of Teacher Layoffs - NYTimes.com

Bloomberg Budget Will Seek Thousands of Teacher Layoffs - NYTimes.com

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Bloomberg Budget Will Seek $400 Million More in Cuts
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Whether Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s $65.6 billion spending proposal for the next fiscal year includes slashing the teaching work force remains unclear.

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Bay City teachers union leader: The funding crisis is 'manufactured' | MLive.com

Bay City teachers union leader: The funding crisis is 'manufactured' | MLive.com




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Bay City teachers union leader: The funding crisis is 'manufactured'
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As proposed state budget cuts loom over public education in Michigan, some teachers unions are preparing for a fight.

“You’re on the record vehemently opposing Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed budget, which calls for significant cuts to public education funding. If you were governor, what would you have budgeted for education?
A: I wonder if the people who voted Snyder in would say they voted him in to manufacture this (funding) crisis. If I were governor, I wouldn’t have taken $900 million from the School Aid Fund and transferred it to higher education. I wouldn’t have manufactured this funding crisis.
But I guess you can’t attack the unions in the way that they are unless there’s a funding crisis, and they found a way to manufacture one.” | Full Article Here| MLive.com

Janesville - Rock County: Ryan's Hometown On Path To Poverty

Janesville - Rock County: Ryan's Hometown On Path To Poverty

"Sunday's Janesville Gazette reported on the growing poverty facing Janesville's school children. Titled, Pupils feel pinch of poverty, the newspaper failed to touch on any of the possible causes for the decline and also left out scads of pertinent information. One item they left out is the number of homeless school children - over 350. Instead they wrote about the personal struggles of several Janesville students trying to keep their head above water, which isn't difficult to relate to considering this is Rep. Paul Ryan's hometown. To the newspaper's credit, they at least didn't try to hide one important number. The fact that nearly half of Janesville's school district kids live in poverty. You read that right. 47.3% of children in the Janesville school district are living in low-income homes. Of note is a percentage chart the newspaper produced that shows poverty among school children has been on a relentless upward trajectory since 2000, interestingly the beginning of Rep. Paul Ryan's occupation of our district seat in Congress."Full Article Here | Janesville - Rock County

Schools may take $852 million hit | Columbus Dispatch Politics

Schools may take $852 million hit | Columbus Dispatch Politics
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