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80 easy and so well paid, why are so many leaving- the profession and so few entering it?"
Miranda Hope, who directs the Next Step program, helping seniors move on to higher learning, worried about “the widening gap between children of the rich and children of the poor,'' that failure to fund good schools will create a generation unable to move ahead.
Sharon Kilpatrick stood up and made it short and simple: “the budget has been hacked up enough. Fund the whole thing." Period.
One after another they stood to support the proposed budget. To opponents of too much spending, folks who want taxes cut and not raised, it must have been a headache to sit and listen. Two prominent spending opponents and members of the Concerned Taxpayers group, Tom Junk and Roger Cordani, would have been excused if they felt outnumbered a jillion to one. Tom Junk stood and worried that buses are running half empty; some of them. He pleaded, “please keep the budget the same...these are tough times." Roger Cordani, who has worked very hard against tax increases, has spent a great deal of his own time and money in that
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