Dearborn PTSA Plans Rally Tuesday in Lansing to Protest Massive Education Budget Cuts for District
The Dearborn Parent Teacher Student Association and several other school districts across the state will be marching on Lansing Tuesday to protest Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s decision to cut education funding.
Dearborn school officials are eying massive job cuts as a result of decision by Granholm. For earlier story, click HERE.
Colette Dunsmore, Dearborn PTSA Council President, has been busy notifying parents and media outlets about the march and urging their participation. Ms. Dunsmore said the PTSA wants to fill at least three buses for the trip to Lansing, which is being funded by PTA’s across the district.
Here is what you need to know if you plan on joining the rally, courtesy of Ms. Dunsmore:
DATE: Tuesday, November 10th
TIME: Meet at 8am, leave by bus NO LATER THAN 8:15am.
LOCATION: Ten Eyck Parking Lot (Administrative Services Center)
DETAILS: We have a permit to be on the steps of the Capitol Building from 10 a.m.-noon. If you want to make signs, please do so! Make sure to include “Dearborn” on the posters plus you may also include “unfair cuts”, “support our children”, etc. You will want to bring a snack with you as we won’t have time to get lunch while we are there. You’ll be able to eat your snack on the way home from Lansing.
RETURN: Leave Lansing at approx. noon, return to Dearborn around 1:45.
ATTIRE: Dress warm as we’ll be outside for approximately 2 hours.
QUESTIONS?Feel free to contact Colette Dunsmore at 313-333-0121.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:58 am
I see Channel 7 is reporting that an overflow crowd is expected at the School Board Meeting tonight.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Mr. Deep, the newspapers are all reporting that the $4.9 Million cut that Dearborn suffered from a special payment was the elimination of an ‘extra’ payment to high-spending districts. Our superintendent, however, is saying that money was to take care of ‘at-risk’ students.
Can you explain the widely-different stories? I had wondered, if Dearborn had been receiving extra money because we were a ‘high-spending’ district, then where is Birmingham or Bloomfield Hills on that list? They spent far more than Dearborn, in the past.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Thank you State Representative Gino Poladori and Governor Granholm. This is enough to make me vote Republican (at least in this next election). The leadership team of Poladori and Granholm together has devastated public education in Dearborn. I know, they will blame it on the other party, but the fact of the matter is that they have both failed the citizens and especially the children.
A year from now we will have an opportunity to clean house. If a candidate and their party have failed to deliver…their gone. I’ll admit it, I voted for both members of the Poladori/Granholm Team, but I wish I could take my vote back.
We need to elect people who will go to Lansing and fight for us, not opportunistic politicians that jump from office to office for a bigger paycheck and more pension money. Next November, I don’t care what party a candidate is running in, I’m voting for the best candidate that’s going to deliver for our schools.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Wasteful spending also got us in this boat. Whiston gave the Education Foundation $70,000 this year so they could hire a full time director. WHY? The Foundation has raised over a million dollars. They should be paying for their own director. Why are my tax dollars paying for this? He has also put it in the budget for the 2010-2011 school year. That’s $140,000 right there. There are plenty more examples out there.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Not only did they give the new Education Foundation Director $70,000 they also let him keep his other full time job. Double dipping at the District expense which equals our tax dollars.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Dearborn is losing funding in a few different areas. 31a is at risk funding. 20j is where they give us a little of our tax dollars back for being a donor city(we pay more than we get back for our schools). There is also the cut per pupil that everyone is receiving.