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While three Michigan school districts are still run by emergency managers, there are no remaining state appointees running city governments after Lincoln Park officially escaped financial emergency Tuesday.
That’s the first time that’s happened in 15 years, according to the governor’s office.
“Rescue those who created bad budgets”? Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and say that Naeyaert is neither naive nor ignorant. Taxpayers are always on the hook for incompetent elected officials one way or another. In the case of DPS, since 1999 three sitting governors, at least one mayor and multiple “emergency” managers have burned through the district’s then-surplus and spent all its bond money, closed refurbished schools and in all those years that motley crew had access to the full faith and credit of and every imaginable agency in the State of Michigan from the Departments of Education, Treasury, Management & Budget, Human Services, both the House and Senate fiscal agencies, Technology, the State Board of Education, four Michigan Superintendents of Public Instruction and on and on… and STILL with all those resources, cumulatively they’ve made a complete and utter mess of the Detroit Public Schools and more recently thoroughly neutered the present democratically-elected DPS board of education trustees. And through all that time, some 16 years, thousands and thousands of students, parents and employees have come and gone and been short-changed … not unlike the lead poisoning debacle in Flint… and those students will carry the scars of being under the thumb of what we might just as well call dictatorial authority versus local control… for life. Enough is enough. Time for Snyder et. al. to clean up the mess he helped create. – Jeff Salisbury
Two years after the City of Detroit went through a highly publicized bankruptcy, Michigan’s governor is proposing a $715 million bailout of the troubled Detroit Public Schools (DPS).
Gov. Rick Snyder’s (R) plan would have Michigan taxpayers pay $515 million to erase the district’s short-term debt and use $200 million to create a new school district for the city. The plan would require approval by the state’s legislature. No lawmaker had submitted a bill as of early December 2015.
Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, a group working for education reform in Michigan, opposes a bailout of DPS. He says it would rescue those who created the bad budgets.
“It’s throwing good money after bad to even consider taking $715 million that should be used to educate children all over the state and use it to pay off old debt from the state’s worst-performing district,” Naeyaert said. “It’s simple. We should stick a fork in DPS, because they’re done.”
Read the rest of the article here: Michigan Gov. Proposes Bailout of Struggling Detroit Schools | Heartlander Magazine
The AARP Daily News Alert will feature answers to a health care law “question of the day” throughout the month of December. Be sure to tune in throughout the month for more answers to frequently asked questions about the health care law.
After I sign up for a health plan in the Health Insurance Marketplace, can I change my mind and sign up for a different plan instead?
Review this and other frequently asked questions about how the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) affects you and your family.
Source: Affordable Care Act – FAQ on How the Health Care Law Affects You and Y… – AARP
The 11th Circuit Creates A Fiction To Justify Gagging Florida Doctors Who Talk About Guns. |
Nobody in the GVP or medical communities (except Rand Paul) is happy with the decision by the 11th Circuit to continue upholding the Docs-Glock statute enacted in the Gunshine State. But there was a comment in the latest decision which may, in the long run, make the argument in support of the law null and void. But before I explain why I think there may be a silver lining, I should spend a few words discussing where the case stands right now.
As you probably know, the original law was enacted
in 2011 and similar statutes have been introduced but not voted in at least 12 other states. Basically the law prohibits physicians from asking patients about gun ownership unless the physician believes that access to guns poses an immediate health risk. But by asking physicians to limit inquiries about any matter unless they have already decided that such inquiries might reveal a medical risk is to stand the entire methodology for assessing patient health on its head.The pro-gun bunch has been trying to push medicine out of the gun debate ever since physicians first began talking about guns as risk to health. The gun industry continues to pretend that we should ignore endless studies which show that gun ownership is linked to increases in both homicide and suicide rates; in fact, they promote the fiction that guns are a positive social element because
it’s an armed citizenry that protects us from violence and crime.
Read the rest of mikethegunguy’s blog post here: The 11th Circuit Creates A Fiction To Justify Gagging Florida Doctors Who Talk About Guns.
Writing as a parent. ‘Beyond Measure: Rescuing an Overscheduled, Overtested, Underestimated Generation’
Fired for having a heart! What??!!
We say “Higher the Hero” – Dalene Bowden is Busting Pencils!!!
This Idaho Middle School Lunch Lady Was Fired for Giving a Free Lunch to a Hungry Student
http://news.yahoo.com/idaho-middle-school-lunch-lady-233401253.html Update: Cafeteria worker fired over free lunch…
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Fired for having a heart! What??!! We say “Higher the Hero” – Dalene Bowden is Busting Pencils!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/idaho-middle-school-lunch-lady-233401253.html
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/state/idaho/article51028040.html
Ironic that ESSA backwards has the word “ASS” E in it??? Hmmmm Our own BustED Pencils Tim Slekar chimes in on the topic.
http://bustedpencils.com/2015/12/a-right-wing-delusion-essa-is-leftist-and-progressive-victory/
http://poeticjusticect.com/2015/08/01/lacey-slekar-our-newest-student-hero/
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The Michigan Republican Party is standing behind a party official who shared an offensive post about Muslims on several social media platforms.
Wayne Bradley, the GOP’s state director of African-American Engagement, said he apologizes if he offended anybody.
“I thought it was light hearted and funny,” Bradley said, “And once I realized that some people took it the wrong way, I took it down.”
“It wasn’t until the Michigan Democratic Party made it an issue that I was aware it had offended anyone,” said Bradley.
Source: Michigan Republican Party official shares inflammatory social media post | Michigan Radio
The city of Flint appears to have prevailed in a court fight over disconnecting delinquent water customers. Last August, Genesee County Circuit Court Judge
The city of Flint appears to have prevailed in a court fight over disconnecting delinquent water customers.
Last August, Genesee County Circuit Court Judge Archie Hayman ordered a halt to water shutoffs until the city of Flint rolled back a 2011 rate hike. The judge ruled that the 35% rate increase was done illegally.
The city started sending out bills reflecting the court-ordered lower rate in September. The lower rates have cost the city roughly $3.4 million.
Source: Judge sides with city of Flint in court fight over water rates | Michigan Radio
A special report looking at the progress, struggles, and failures in Detroit during the city’s first year out of bankruptcy: An investigative reporter fights city hall to acknowledge there are hundreds and hundreds of broken fire hydrants.Many Detroit and Wayne county homeowners are losing their homes to tax foreclosure when they shouldn’t.Unemployment in Detroit is consistently twice the state rate. Employers say too many Detroit residents are unskilled.The working poor are one crisis away…
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