Tricky Rick (Snyder) & the Raiders of the Lost Current $500,000 Education Fund Surplus

Tricky Rick wants to burn through $500 million public education K-12 current surplus is an Omnibus Bill; big and bold.

Tricky Rick is moving in the direction of a legislative Omnibus Bill which will fast track all of the over 30 individual school funding bills; proposing various aspects of the state budget battle into an omnibus of 7 or 8 compact items. The clever trick Rick is pushing is inserting higher education into the K-12 budget so as to have a legal way; denied by the ordinary rules, siphoning by the legislature (dedicated funds) away from K-12. But Walhalla! We have a slick Tricky Rick moment.

Inserting colleges and universities into the K-12 "funding pot" as Tricky Rick is intent on doing, allows him to steal from K-12 so that by 2013 that surplus will be whittled down to zero.

Go Omnibus and our children are executively screwed again.

The proposed use of the Omnibus Bill mechanism is one of those clever bureaucratic Rube Goldberg schemes found as a tool useful in doing the nasty when nasty is desired by politicians far from the public eye.

The Pro-education Nerd has morphed to Tricky Rick.


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