Don't use Michigan's K-12 fund for higher education

Lansing State Journal:

Michigan's education funding system has been broken for a long time.

Gov. Rick Snyder's plan to shift college and university funding into the School Aid Fund that pays for K-12 education is not a good long-term solution.

Snyder is trying to use the financial pressure to accelerate efforts to curb the overpromising of salaries, pensions and benefits - especially health care benefits - to teachers. Likewise, many in the Republican Party believe the state's colleges and universities have spent too much on salaries and benefits.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 5, 2011 1:39 AM
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