Editor’s note: This is an edited version of a letter originally submitted by a reader to the Dexter school board prior to their meeting this past Monday. There have been a number of newspaper articles about Washtenaw County school districts scheduling public forums and meetings to get input from residents ...
Opponents of the hotly contested Washtenaw countywide schools enhancement millage spent nearly twice as much as supporters to help assure its failure. McKinley Associates Inc., a large real estate company based in Ann Arbor, almost single-handedly funded the opposition campaign with donations of $100,000. Anti- and pro-millage groups filed their ...
When I was a boy, I learned you had to pull up the anchor if you wanted to set sail. It seems many in Lansing never learned this lesson. The foundation on which our schools have been built has disappeared. Raising taxes to perpetuate the failed status quo is insanity. ...
The Ann Arbor Public Schools Educational Foundation has received about $7,500 in private donations since voters turned down a countywide schools enhancement millage, executive director Wendy Correll told the school board Wednesday night. In addition, a private donor has offered matching funds up to $10,000 for donations gathered from new ...
As more than 200 Saline school district parents, staff members and students streamed into Liberty School tonight to talk about the district’s financial state, they quickly grabbed all the available copies of the night’s PowerPoint presentation. Superintendent Scot Graden told those without copies the numbers would be on the screen ...
In a letter posted on AAPSNews, Superintendent Todd Roberts says the district will hold a series of meetings in January for parents and the community to discuss the district's financial situation and present options for reducing costs and enhancing revenues. During these meetings they will gather feedback from the community ...
Just who is Albert Berriz, treasurer of “Citizens for a responsible Washtenaw -anti millage group?” What are his educational leadership qualifications? It sounds to me that he's a “right-winger.” He reminds me of the Business Round Table members who have, over the years, done all they could to bash public ...
The voters of Washtenaw County shot a cannon ball across the bow of the public school system on Nov. 3. Is this the archangels trumpet horn that school officials and our politicians will hear?
The stark reality facing the Saline school district, Superintendent Scot Graden says, is the district will become insolvent by the middle of next year if cuts aren't made. That’s a future Graden doesn’t want to see. “The board of education and I have made it clear that this is NOT ...
It is interesting to note that in Albert Berriz's many anti-school millage campaign pronouncements and in his Nov. 8 exultation of his triumph, he failed to mention that he and his company (McKinley) are huge property owners in Washtenaw County. Thus any school millage would add to the property taxes ...
Well I suppose there will be plenty of sad faces among school officials and students alike now that the millage was defeated. It's too bad for the students, I'll agree. However, as far as the faculty and school administrators are concerned, I believe they brought this problem on themselves. Mismanagement ...
I am not a teacher, but I used to be, I taught mathematics in a Michigan High School for four years. As the primary provider for a family we qualified for food stamps. I left teaching, went to industry, doubled my income and cut my workload in half. Admittedly that ...
The majority of the voters have voiced their desire for more fiscal responsibility and accountability in our public school systems. It took courage for most of these "no" voters, I'm sure. I don't think anyone wants to see our school system fall down on the job of educating our future ...
The Saline school board is asking its teachers’ union and three other employee groups to re-open their contracts to review wages and benefits. That action, approved by the board Tuesday evening, comes in response to a budget shortfall resulting from the double whammy of a cut in state funding and ...
Former Ann Arbor school board member Kathy Griswold, a leader of the opposition to a countywide school enhancement millage, chats with Ann Arbor teachers union President Brit Satchwell during a school funding rally in Lansing this morning. David Jesse | AnnArbor.com LANSING - As Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm made her ...
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