Articles tagged: school enhancement millage
Dexter school board fails to listen to voters
Posted: Dec 06, 2009Editor’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 ... Read more »
Washtenaw County real estate firm donates $100,000 in anti-millage campaign
Posted: Dec 03, 2009Opponents 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 ... Read more »
Change or die: Michigan's education system is failing students and taxpayers
Posted: Nov 22, 2009When 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 ... Read more »
Ann Arbor school board gets clean financial audit, discusses school finances
Posted: Nov 18, 2009The 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, ... Read more »
Saline school community gathers to discuss budget cuts, school finances
Posted: Nov 16, 2009As 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 ... Read more »
AAPSNews: Ann Arbor Public Schools to hold community meetings on cost-cutting options in January
Posted: Nov 16, 2009In 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 ... Read more »
Taxes are the membership fees we pay to maintain a civilized society
Posted: Nov 15, 2009Just 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 ... Read more »
Educators need to find way to survive in a changing paradigm
Posted: Nov 15, 2009The 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? Read more »
Washtenaw County schools, residents continue school budget discussions
Posted: Nov 15, 2009The 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 ... Read more »
Albert Berriz's opposition to millage was self-serving
Posted: Nov 15, 2009It 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 ... Read more »
Teachers, school officials brought current crisis upon themselves
Posted: Nov 15, 2009Well 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 ... Read more »
Teachers have a tough job and deserve to be paid well
Posted: Nov 14, 2009I 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 ... Read more »
Are local school leaders listening to what voters really said?
Posted: Nov 12, 2009The 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 ... Read more »
Saline school board wants to open contracts with teachers, other unions
Posted: Nov 11, 2009The 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 ... Read more »
Washtenaw County residents join Lansing rally for school funding
Posted: Nov 10, 2009Former 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 ... Read more »
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