State funding for Michigan school districts will look a little more equal next year. Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a new school budget bill Tuesday that eliminates longstanding funding gaps between districts.
Since 1994, the state has used a formula to decide the minimum each public-school district gets per student, and in the past, that formula created unequal funding between districts. The gap has been getting smaller.
But on Tuesday, the governor signed a school aid budget in which all schools will get the same minimum, $87 hundred dollars per student.
“We are eliminating the funding gap between schools without raising taxes. This was a promise from 1994 when we passed proposal A.”
The overall bill calls for more than 17 billion in spending.