Vast Majority of Teachers Experienced Cuts

The Michigan Education Association says nearly 80 percent of teachers in the state have experienced funding cuts at their schools in the past four years. The president of the state’s teachers union says K-12 funding cuts aren’t campaign rhetoric ahead of the election next month. Democrats and the MEA say Governor Snyder has cut one billion dollars in public education funding, while the governor countered during a town hall forum with challenger Mark Schauer on Sunday that education spending in the current budget is over one billion dollars higher than when he took office.