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Dear Neighbor, I hope you're soaking up the sunshine and enjoying the warm weather as we wrap up the final weeks of spring. I also hope you're all as excited as I am for the fun summer activites our great state has to offer. As we celebrate Pride this June, I want to...

District 5 Legislative & Community Updates

District 5 Legislative & Community Updates

Dear Neighbor,    Over the past weeks and months, my colleagues and I have been working hard to craft a fiscally responsible state budget to ensure that while chaos and confusion comes from Washington, our communities can find security at the state level. Full of...

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Had fun at Livonia Pride today at Schoolcraft College, and ran into some friends and colleagues, State Representative Matt Koleszar, Livonia City Council member Carrie Budzinski, and Livonia Pride organizer Renay Weiss-Stansell. ... See MoreSee Less

Had fun at Livonia Pride today at Schoolcraft College, and ran into some friends and colleagues, State Representative Matt Koleszar, Livonia City Council member Carrie Budzinski, and Livonia Pride organizer Renay Weiss-Stansell.Image attachmentImage attachment

Polehanki: "I think a lot about life after power. And what do people do with their lives after leaving positions of power?

That's why I was surprised when I read the Nolan Finley column in the “Detroit News” that former Governor Snyder plans to spend his current life after power, spending $20 to $30 million to ‘burn the failure of public schools into the mind of every voter.’

It’s interesting to me that under Governor Snyder's BEST THINKING, when he got in, what was it, 2011, we were already dead last in inflation-adjusted total revenue growth [for K-12 schools]. So, his BEST THINKING led him to slash it even further.

Dr. Rice, you mentioned [during Snyder’s tenure] he ripped away a pension – a good pension like my dad has – from teachers into a less lucrative pension tier?

You mentioned [during Snyder’s tenure] was it 20% teachers would now be on the hook for health insurance out of pocket?

You mentioned [during Snyder’s tenure] a $470 per pupil cut. Is that right?

So, it's interesting to me that former Governor Snyder is spending his life after power crapping on an institution that he helped to break.

He's also the King of all Emergency Managers, right?

All I knew when I was in teaching was that it got real bad. I didn't know about all these details. But what you've presented here is that in the Snyder years -- and you can ask teachers about the Snyder years -- we didn't know everything, how it got that bad, but it was bad. And I ended my teaching career at the end of that.

So, under Governor Snyder, there was a 60% reduction in students wanting to be teachers? 59%?

Is teacher effectiveness one of the defining qualities that determines whether or not kids learn?

So [in the Snyder years] 60% of students who may have wanted to become a teacher said, "Nah"?

Dr. Rice: The number of young people [entering teacher prep programs] dropped in five years from [Snyder's] first year, 23,000 people preparing for the profession to five years later 9,512.

Polehanki: He has a big microphone, but so do I.

So I guess that's why I chose this time to talk about what he aims to do -- which I think is rotten."
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Juneteenth, observed on June 19, marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States were informed of their freedom in Galveston, Texas. ... See MoreSee Less

Juneteenth, observed on June 19, marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States were informed of their freedom in Galveston, Texas.
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