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Education
3:40 pm
Tue May 28, 2013

Crawling to protest the closing of Albion High School

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Community activist Bobby Holley is crawling, on his hands and knees, from Battle Creek to Albion. He's protesting the closing of Albion High School.
Credit Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio
Before starting his 30 mile crawl from Battle Creek to Albion, Holley gets some help taping cushions to his hands.
Credit Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio
Holley expects it will be Thursday by the time he completes his journey.
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A community activist is making a unique protest, in hopes of rallying people in Albion to fight the closure of their high school.

With a kiss from one of his supporters, Bobby Holley started crawling.   He intends to crawl, on his hands and knees, the 30 miles from Battle Creek to Albion.   

He says he wants to rally the people of Albion, so they will fight the decisions to close their high school

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Politics & Government
12:28 pm
Tue May 28, 2013

16,000 new preschool slots could open up in Michigan with funding boost

Preschool-age boy practicing writing his name at a table in a Head Start classroom.
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Sylus Sims practices writing his name at South Godwin Head Start.
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"It's certainly a good day for early childhood advocates." - Matt Gillard of the Michigan Sandbox Party

Dustin Dwyer from our State of Opportunity team has more on the expected increase for early childhood education in Michigan:

The annual legislative brawl over how to spend the state's money is expected to come to a close this week in Lansing. The budgets currently under consideration include many changes. One of the biggest is a nearly 60 percent increase in the state's funding for early education.

The governor initially proposed a $65 million increase for the Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) in his budget. The proposal went back and forth as it made its way through the legislature this year, but it's now looking like the governor will get his way.

Read his full report here.

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