Schooling in the Ownership Society: Schools starve despite Michigan's billion-dollar surplus

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Schools starve despite Michigan's billion-dollar surplus:

Schools starve despite Michigan's billion-dollar surplus

by Mike Klonsky

T-Party Gov. Snyder says:"Let 'em eat cake."

Michigan is ending the year with an estimated $1.2 billion budget surplus. But T-Party Gov. Rick Snyder issitting on the money rather than funding the state's cash-starved public schools and rehiring laid-off teachers.

Democrats and some Republicans want public schools to get a major share of any surplus. The State Board of Education has also called for a significant portion of any budget surplus to be invested in education. Public school funding was cut more than 2 percent in the fiscal year that