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Festivito

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1. After 15 hours, passed at 4:30 AM! All Dems voted NO. 6 bills. No Dem changes were approved.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu May 5, 2016, 10:43 AM

May 2016

Teachers sickout ended. Schools working on Wednesday. This passed early early Thursday AM in wee hours.

Dems called it "institutional racism."

http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/04/lots-lansing-lobbying-but-no-deal-yet-fixing-detroit-schools/83950838/
Freep is the supposed liberal newspaper of the two JOINTLY-OWNED (what a joke) liberal and conservative newspapers in Detroit.

The too rich for their own good DeVos (Amway) family pushes for more charter schools. They are happiest purposely to under-fund Detroit schools making Detroit constantly come back and ask for more in the news. That way, they can entrench their ability to make more money off of the school funding tax structure.

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Michigan lawmakers advance $500 million package for Detroit schools [View all] Eugene May 2016 OP

After 15 hours, passed at 4:30 AM! All Dems voted NO. 6 bills. No Dem changes were approved. Festivito May 2016 #1

The DeVos family wants to kill public ed for good. QED May 2016 #2