| On Thursday October 8th the Michigan Legislature Passed the 2009-2010 school aide budget... The budget featured a $165 per student cut from last years budget. That's $5,000 less for a 30 pupil class and $800,000 less for a school with 500 students.
Of all the Services that the state provides what is more important than education? I am not advocating increased revenue, we need to cut spending in places other than education. We could cut spending from the department of corrections by early release of non-violent offenders. We could also cut revenue sharing to Michigan counties. With our reduced population many of our local police and fire Dpts. are over staffed, so we can cut funding to Michigan counties without losing essential services. http://mi-wire.blogspot.com/ |
