Articles tagged: school aid fund
Detroit News: Michigan Senate passes $470 per-pupil education funding cut
Posted: May 25, 2011The Michigan Senate passed a $470 per-pupil funding cut for K-12 education, the Detroit News is reporting this afternoon. Read more »
Opinion: Voters did not intend School Aid Fund to be used for higher education. Use it to avoid cuts to K-12 education
Posted: May 22, 2011Dear Governor Snyder, I am writing regarding cuts to K-12 education at a time when the School Aid Fund has a healthy surplus. In my opinion, using money from the School Aid Fund for purposes ... Read more »
Opinion: With surplus in school aid fund, Legislature needs to reject severe cuts in K-12 education
Posted: May 22, 2011What’s wrong with this picture? The Michigan school aid fund has a surplus of more than $600 million and the state just found an additional $430 million in revenue that it wasn’t expecting. Yet massive ... Read more »
The Detroit News: State lawmakers working to lessen cut to K-12 education
Posted: May 18, 2011A budget agreement is in the works that would lessen the blow to K-12 school districts from Gov. Rick Snyder's proposed budget, The Detroit News reports. The new plan reduces the proposed $300 per-pupil cut ... Read more »
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