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Rep. Andy Schor expresses his disappointment at the passage of the state's general budget for fiscal year 2014. House Bill 4328 contains several shortfalls, most notably the failure to accept federal funding to expand Medicaid.

The budget also reduces funding to the Department of Education for implementing the Common Core Standards, a set of goals for students in each grade level. It doesn't mandate a curriculum or take local control away from school districts, as some right-wing extremists believe. Rather, it helps Michigan students achieve their fullest potential and enable them to compete with their peers across the country and around the world.

Rep. Rudy Hobbs offers an amendment to support funding for an education program that exposes students to engineering, computer science, and medicine. SB 126 is a general fund supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2012-2013.

House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel (D-Auburn Hills) and state Representative Rashida H. Tlaib (D-Detroit), Democratic vice chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, expressed their disappointment at the passage of the state's general budget for fiscal year 2014. House Bill 4328 contains several shortfalls, most notably the failure to accept federal funding to expand Medicaid.