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Has the Ivory Tower Lost its Luster? Rethinking Higher Education in Michigan

… dozens of private and trade schools. These help develop lifelong … country? Michigan taxpayers are spending more on higher education … decade ago. State taxpayers spend $2.7 billion on higher education, … neighboring states. Michigan spends more than Massachusetts — … spite of, or because of this, spending, tuition and debt have all …

Major Thomas Jenks: A Veteran’s Legacy of Service and Support

… siblings and attended Meridian schools before joining the ROTC program … undertook a career in education, spending 20 years teaching in the … Cleveland’s Collinwood High School from 1995-2014. His exemplary … substitute teacher for the local schools in Bath. When he isn’t working … like it when he arrives at school on a Harley. Throughout his …

Michigan’s largest debt declines

Gov. Whitmer asks to put less into the pension system

… shortfall in funding for public school employee pension debt is down … law requires that all public school employees, including community … 396,000 people covered by the school system, including 152,000 … that it has turned public school employees into the state’s … by $670 million in order to spend the money elsewhere. Deferring …

New Report Shows How Michigan Schools Spent COVID Funds

Nearly half spent on employees

… report found that Michigan school districts spent their Covid-19 funds similarly to how they spend their general budget, with … Public Policy, breaks down how school districts have spent $2.5 … 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. In an effort to help … amounts of money to public schools across the country from March …

Covid Cash

How Michigan Schools Spent Their Extra Pandemic Funds

… money to American public schools to address the challenges … government to analyze how public schools in Michigan have reported spending their Covid relief funds. … information covers the three school years that ended in 2020, … 2022. The analysis finds that school districts reported spending …

No free lunch: Students aren’t embracing Michigan’s no-cost school meals

There’s been a mere 8% increase in students eating taxpayer-paid school lunches in Michigan

… income students in public schools. The Legislature added $160 million to the school aid budget to provide free … for all 1.3 million public school students in Michigan. Whitmer … story. In 2016 the state’s schools fed an average of 784,195 … benefiting from the extra state spending on subsidized school lunches …

It’s time for Michigan to demand educational opportunity

As more successful states expand education savings accounts, Whitmer heads the other way

… these states have in common? School choice for all. Alabama recently … accounts, the most popular form of school choice. The state enacted … the zip code, no matter the school – to receive a quality education,” … control of flexible education spending accounts to personalize their … defray the cost of textbooks, school uniforms, test prep classes, …

The man who wrestled global hunger to the ground

Happy 110th birthday to Norman Borlaug, a great American credited with saving a billion lives

… 25, 2024. In the winters, I spend my time officiating high school wrestling. Last year, while … Borlaug was an accomplished high school and college wrestler who helped … popularity of sport at the high school level in Minnesota. (He also … Borlaug’s great nephew, a high school civics and history teacher, …

Fox2 Detroit misstates impact of declining school enrollment

Some Michigan schools have larger payrolls than current conditions allow

School boards are faced with the possibility of running out of money or closing schools to stay afloat,” according … station adds that the number of school buildings in Michigan dropped … sounds ominous, the facts about school district finances offer some … the other stuff districts spend money on that they could never …

Pension debt payments save taxpayers on the state’s largest creditors

State promised $35 billion more in retirement benefits than what’s been set aside

… its debt payments into the school retirement system? Lawmakers … the state accidentally made school employees the state’s largest … can afford the pensions that school workers earn. But lawmakers … problem. They switched new school employees to plans that lower … Whitmer wants to change this and spend debt payments elsewhere. She …