Date: September 9 Speaker: Craig Thiel Venue: CRC Webinar Topic: State and Local Operating Support of Michigan Schools
Continue ReadingAs highlighted in CRC’s recent report, Distribution of State Aid to Michigan Schools, the school finance reforms of the mid-1990s achieved a number of their intended initial goals. At the top of this list is progress towards greater per-pupil operatin...
Continue ReadingMuch attention has been paid to Michigan’s economic problems over the last decade and, by extension, the direct effects on the state budget. Local school district finances have not been immune from the state’s financial challenges because a signific...
Continue ReadingFor Immediate Release: May 22, 2013 Contact: Bob Schneider 517.485.9444 New CRC Report Shows how K-12 Funding has been Limited by Growing Retirement Liabilities Michigan public schools have seen fewer dollars remain available for classroom education in re...
Continue ReadingSchool Aid Budget: Will FY2014 Increases Be Sustainable in FY2015? State Budget Note 2013-02, July 2013 Just nine days following the announcement of an agreement on state budget targets, the Legislature wrapped up the first large piece of the Fiscal Year ...
Continue ReadingFor Immediate Release: July 11, 2013 Contact: Bob Schneider 517.485.9444 New CRC Report asks whether school budget increases can survive in FY2015 The recently enacted school aid budget provided Michigan public schools with small increases in per-pupil fu...
Continue ReadingMaking Sense of K-12 Funding Memorandum 1129, October 2014 The current political debate seems fixated, at times, on the issue of state funding for public K-12 schools. Specifically, claims and counterclaims have been leveled about whether state funding ...
Continue ReadingState Assumption of School Debts Memorandum 1135, April 2015 Introduction On March 30, 2015, the Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren (the Coalition) issued a report concerning the K-12 public education landscape and challenges in the City o...
Continue ReadingDate: September 29, 2015 Speaker: Eric Lupher Venue: Farmington-Farmington Hills Xemplar Club Topic: School Finance in Michigan: Opportunities and Challenges
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