Bill To Restore Mich. Schools Funding
Michigan's public schools will get more money through a distribution of federal assistance approved by the state Legislature.
The Republican-led Senate and Democratic-led House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that will restore $154 per student to every district in the state in the fiscal year that starts Friday. That essentially would return schools to at least the annual minimum of $7,316 per student that districts were supposed to get before budget cuts in the 2009-10 fiscal year.
School districts would receive an additional $23 to $46 per student beyond the $154 per student restoration under the bill headed to Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
Schools are one of the relatively few areas not getting cut in Michigan's latest budget votes.
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