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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

ACLU says school fees illegal

...In June, the ACLU of Michigan sent a letter to the Ann Arbor Public Schools opposing the district's plan to start charging high school students $100 per semester to take a seventh-hour class. Although that seventh hour is technically optional, the ACLU argued that students use that time to take classes they need to graduate, so they shouldn't be charged.
"Ann Arbor Public Schools has essentially created a two-tiered educational system where those who can pay benefit and those who cannot receive a lesser educational experience all together," executive director Kary L. Moss said in a statement...
 http://www.cnbc.com/id/100942455

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  1. GANSLER & SUNSHINE: Whatever you think of Gansler as a candidate, writes the editorial board for the Frederick News Post, he deserves a pat on the back for at least broaching strengthening the state’s sunshine laws, which state lawmakers themselves have no real vested interest in improving.

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