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NEW POLL OVERVIEW:<br />
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Several Michigan school superintendents are calling for lawmakers to return to Lansing to fix the new state budget by boosting their funding.<br />
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The recently passed budget signed by the governor increases traditional state aid by between $50 and $175 per student. The lowest-funded districts receive $175 more while higher-funded districts get $50 more, with other districts getting somewhere in-between.<br />
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About 126 of Michigan's 800-plus districts and charter schools getting the smallest increase complain it's not enough to offset an increase in their payment toward school employees' retirement.<br />
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One of the current areas of contention is that significant amounts of the revenue that schools currently receive goes for non school related expenditures including benefit payments for teachers healthcare and retirement. Opponents of additional funding feel the educational system benefit structure needs to be addressed so that the teachers are contributing more significantly to their own benefits.<br />
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NEW POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should the legislature come back into session to grant additional revenue to schools?<br />
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Undecided<br />
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PREVIOUS POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should the President and Congress approve $500 million in aid to the Syrian opposition for training the rebels?<br />
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Yes - 0%<br />
No - 95%<br />
Undecided - 5% <br />
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ONE COMMENT WAS MADE ON THIS POLL:<br />
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COMMENT #1<br />
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Isn't this the same strategy<br />
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Isn't this the same strategy we tried against the Russians in Afghanistan and in Iran-Contra? Don't we have better ideas? New ideas? I'm not sold on this being the best way to change what is happening in Syria and the greater Middle East.<br />
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