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15 Feb ’12
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How can they do this in their current financial situation, aren't they still under bankruptcy protection?
DETROIT - Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced Tuesday all Detroit high school graduates will receive two years of tuition at a community college.
The city of Detroit has created the "Detroit Promise," which is a permanent funding source to make sure Detroit students have access to a tuition-free, two-year community college education.
"We are making a promise to every single student who graduates from a high school in Detroit," said Duggan.
The mayor said a part of the city's property taxes will be set aside for the tuition fund. He said the leader of the Detroit Regional Chamber (DRC) started putting the money aside in 2013 after state legislation was passed in 2008 to allow such programs.
21 Feb ’12
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yep, can't meet payroll but let's give free college
The cash-strapped Detroit Public Schools will run out of money to pay employees after the fiscal year wraps up on June 30, the schools' emergency manager said on Saturday.
Steven Rhodes, a former federal bankruptcy judge, said that $48.7 million in supplemental funding approved by the Michigan legislature last month would allow paychecks for all employees only through the end of June.
He urged state lawmakers to approve a $715 million rescue plan that would create a new Detroit Education Commission, with broad authority to control new school openings for the next five years.
Without passage of the reform package, "there will be no funds available to pay any of our employees — those teachers on a 26-pay cycle included," Rhodes, who began running the district in March, said in an emailed statement.
21 Feb ’12
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So many people don't understand economics. Just because government mandates free services at the consumer level, that doesn't magically remove the cost of providing them.
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