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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 …

Free community college will cost taxpayers — and hurt students

State has already spent half a billion without knowing whether the program works

… community college for high school graduates is the latest part … as of 2023, Michigan high school graduates and GED holders … Scholarships. This burst of spending has already cost taxpayers … correct path” to life after high school. And in the same breath, she’s … way to drive up tuition; schools can charge more because they …

Performance-based pay

… 2011 reforms prohibited a school district from negotiating … its teachers.”[16] Michigan school districts traditionally agreed … despite high and rising state spending. In this context, alternative … Granholm passed a law requiring a school district “to maintain a method … compensation for its teachers and school administrators that includes …

Payroll deduction of union dues

A 2011 law prohibited school districts from using public resources … labor organization. A public school employer’s use of public school resources to assist a labor … fees from wages of public school employees is a prohibited … governmental decisions on spending and policy. It ruled that …

Don’t redirect pension funds

Lawmakers should be wary about lowering pension debt payments

… pension debt payments and spend it elsewhere. Michigan legislators … public retirees. All public school employees are required by … insurance system. Michigan public schools send money to the state to … The state accidentally made school employees the state’s largest … debt is bad for teachers. School resources now go to pay down …

In Detroit schools, nothing succeeds like failure

Conventional schools get more money to do worse, while charter schools do better with less

Charter schools outperform conventional public schools in Detroit despite getting … the best open enrollment schools in Michigan. Their success … best open-enrollment middle schools in Detroit are charter schools, … been characterized by record spending on public schools statewide …

From Intern to Fiscal Wiz: James Hohman Unravels Michigan’s Budget Mysteries

… Michigan’s other strong free-market school. His first project at the Mackinac … containing every line item of state spending. “One of the regular things I ask … that ought to apply to government spending. “The closest free-market policy … from the state to prevent public spending for select private benefits were …

Ain’t No Spending High Enough

Letter from the Executive Vice President

… for child care and elder care Offer new economic development incentives Spend more on postsecondary education and training Give tax credits for student … governance model for education; and design a new funding model for K-12 schools. All this will require, it says, “a complete retooling of government systems …

Don’t redirect pension funds

Lawmakers should be wary about lowering pension debt payments

… pension debt payments and spend it elsewhere. Michigan legislators … public retirees. All public school employees are required by … insurance system. Michigan public schools send money to the state to … The state accidentally made school employees the state’s largest … debt is bad for teachers. School resources now go to pay down …

Flint schools get $156M in COVID funds, ask for debt relief

District seeks $56M bailout from Michigan Legislature

Leaders of Flint’s school district have asked state lawmakers … years after Flint Community Schools received $156 million in COVID-19 … per pupil. Flint Community Schools received $51,193 per pupil … state. Benton Harbor Area Schools was second at $29,502 per … 300 homeless students. The spending, which the district said …

Super-seniors won’t fix Michigan’s population problem

Any task expands to fill the time you give it

… super-seniors at the high school level. Super-seniors are … an additional year of high school education. Super-seniors could … shows that efficient public spending, which produces value for … generation? What’s more, higher spending on public schools does not … workforce and even more school spending.