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Operating Millage Renewal

DFSE: Every vote counts! Dearborn Public Schools Operating Millage Renewal: Maintain & Sustain Our Schools

Dearborn Public Schools will ask voters to renew a 10-year operating millage.

  • This is a renewal so tax rates will not increase if this proposal is passed.

  • Without this funding, the district would sink to one of the lowest per-pupil general fund revenues in Michigan.

  • The district would lose about $41 million in annual funding to support operations - including DFSE support staff.

  • Dearborn Residents: Voters can check their registration status now or request an absentee ballot at: Michigan.gov/Vote.
    (Non-residents should also check their status too as voting is important no matter where you live but they would not vote on this renewal.
    They can make sure people know the facts though!)

More details can be found on the district's website: https://dearbornschools.org/operating-millage-renewal/

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Randi Weingarten at a Massachusetts high school

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In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times  column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.

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Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

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