New state budget plan gives wealthy schools more money

[Judi Lynn]

New state budget plan gives wealthy schools more money


September 09, 2004



LANSING (AP) — Michigan’s wealthiest school districts would get the funding boost they’d been expecting under a revised spending plan approved yesterday by the state Senate.

The sale of several parcels of state-owned land will cover the $6.6 million needed to give a $74 per-student increase to school districts that receive more than $9,000 per student, said Greg Bird, spokesman for Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s budget office.

That’s a change from an agreement reached last week between the Democratic governor and Republican legislative leaders. That deal would have prevented those wealthy school districts from getting the same $74-per-student increase as other districts.

Districts are guaranteed at least $6,700 per pupil in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
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