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Michigan’s Shrinking Public School Workforce Amplified by Pandemic

...fall. These health concerns amplified regular staff exits and prompted a number of people to pursue early retirement or resign. Many did not want to risk returning

Council Briefs

November 18, 2020
Tags K-12 education, Pandemic, public sector employment

State Taking Teacher Turnover Seriously, Finally – New Teacher Retention Program Part of Budget

...the pandemic, teacher attrition and mobility are even greater concerns for families and district officials as older teachers and those with underlying health risks must contemplate their

Council Briefs

September 25, 2020
Tags teacher pipeline, teacher retention, teacher turnover, teacher workforce

COVID-19 Will Lower State Revenue Sharing Dollars to Local Governments

...102.3 percent of a local unit’s combined CVTRS payments (including supplemental payments) from FY2019.   These payments are subject to appropriation risk. They are not guaranteed like constitutional

Council Briefs

June 5, 2020
Tags constitutional state revenue sharing, Coronavirus, COVID-19, local finance, Local Taxes, local-option taxes, state revenue sharing, state taxes, statutory state revenue sharing

Growth Expected to Continue, but a Recession Looms

...to the 2015 road funding package. The risk of a recession looms; a decline would be particularly troublesome for the General Fund. The forecast from January’s Consensus

Council Briefs

January 17, 2019
Tags budget, consensus revenue estimating conference, CREC, economy, General Fund

Adapting Michigan’s Sunshine Laws to the Cloud of Coronavirus

...argued that lawmakers traveling to Lansing from all over the state and then back to their hometowns presents a unique risk of spreading the outbreak even further

Council Briefs

April 6, 2020
Tags Coronavirus, COVID-19, local government, open meetings act, state government, sunshine laws

Coronavirus and the State Budget: What’s at Stake

...funding to maintain operations. Needless to say, the General Fund faces some of the largest risks in the current environment. School Aid Fund – With sales tax

Council Briefs

March 30, 2020
Tags budget, Coronavirus, General Fund, recession, virus

Take Responsibility for Financially Distressed Schools; Don’t Takeover

...to provide the resources sufficient to meet the unique learning needs of students. Low-income students and those at-risk of academic failure are not supported with sufficient funding.

Council Briefs

March 5, 2020
Tags fiscal distress, flint schools

General Fund Woes at the Forefront of Michigan’s 2021 Executive Budget

...address this imbalance, either through new revenues or spending cuts. Otherwise, the state could risk bringing financial troubles on itself as the current period of economic expansion

Council Briefs

February 19, 2020

Medicaid isn’t broken. Why do we keep trying to fix it?

...also inadvertently harms people in the process (since no care is entirely without risk). In politics, there is a similar preponderance of unnecessary activity. Policies are often

Council Briefs

February 6, 2020
Tags Affordable Care Act, Block Grant, health care, Health Insurance, Healthy Michigan Plan, medicaid, work requirement

Child Care and the State

...value of high quality, center-based care was demonstrated in several early intervention programs conducted in the 1960s and 1970s. While these projects targeted high-risk, disadvantaged children, more

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March 31, 2011
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