PLEASE READ THIS ANALYSIS FROM PARENT ADVOCACY GROUP Michigan Parents for Schools: Here are three basic facts that everyone needs to understand. The evidence for them is indisputable: Starting with the 2012 fiscal year, the Governor and Legislature together took away roughly $1 billion that would normally have gone to K-12 education. That loss has been repeated each year since then, adding up to billions of dollars missing from school aid. Schools took a major cut that first year, but they didnt have to: the states economists had predicted revenues would have allowed schools to keep their funding level even as Federal stimulus money expired. The tax cuts that year made the school cuts necessary. The slow growth in school funding since that first year had nothing to do with the Governor or Legislature or any decisions they made. Its all the result of automatic systems which collected more funds for schools as the economy recovered.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 01:37:51 +0000
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