After a year that saw nearly one-billion dollars in cuts to public schools, many education leaders had high hopes that better things were on the way for 2012.
But Michigan Education Association President Steven Cook says the current agenda in Lansing, as laid out in the governor's State of the State address, offers more of the same.
He said it's time for lawmakers to stop paying lip service to the idea of making education a priority.
"The data and the research were ignored, and every bill, policy and program were dictated by politics."
Michigan is projected to have a four-hundred fifty-seven million dollar budget surplus this year. Education leaders are calling on the governor to put some of that money back into public schools.
But Michigan Education Association President Steven Cook says the current agenda in Lansing, as laid out in the governor's State of the State address, offers more of the same.
He said it's time for lawmakers to stop paying lip service to the idea of making education a priority.
"The data and the research were ignored, and every bill, policy and program were dictated by politics."
Michigan is projected to have a four-hundred fifty-seven million dollar budget surplus this year. Education leaders are calling on the governor to put some of that money back into public schools.