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Pittsburgh Stands Up for Education and Protests Corbett’s Award at the Opera

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When the Pittsburgh Opera decided to betstow upon Governor Tom Corbett and his wife a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for support of the arts the irony was not lost on thousands of people in Pittsburgh.

The outrage that a Governor who cut $1 billion from the education budget in his first budget, causing many arts and music programs to be eliminated and their teachers laid off, would receive such an award boiled over as hundreds of angry messages appeared on the Pittsburgh Opera’s Facebook page.

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