Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) Tuesday signed a $24.3 billion education budget for fiscal 2024 that her office is hailing as “historic.”

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Government actually doing things for its citizens. Crazy!

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Even as a conservative, Whitmer seems to be doing a lot of good for her voters.

Free lunches, better resources for kids and more funding for ELL.

Although I’m skeptical of too much more spending on public schools, as we spend an absurd amount more per full time student compared to our peer countries, as long as the funds are directed to doing good like this, instead of just the bloat at the administration level, it’s agreeable.

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This is what can happen when we vote the fascists out of power. The ‘both sides the same’ bullshit is idiocy and is propagated by the disinformation machine in order to suppress voters.

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Hell yeah, we love Big Gretch!

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Hopefully 2028 Democratic primary is Big Gretch v Pritzker. I think either would be a better nominee than Newsom.

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I thought the feds kidnapped her

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