K-12 funding

Both leaders of the Michigan legislature say they’d support withholding lawmakers' pay if the state goes into a government shutdown

The Michigan State Legislature missed its July 1st deadline to pass a K-12 school budget and a new survey shows that parents are frustrated with the delay

Political gridlock in the state Legislature has left education funding in limbo. School News Network’s Charles Honey talks with Dan Behm, executive director of Education Advocates of West Michigan, breaking down the reasons for the logjam and what can be done about it.

Michigan kids are going back to school soon and districts still don’t know how much state funding they'll get for the new year

The July deadline was enacted after a 2007 deadlock between Gov. Granholm and a divided Legislature led to a brief partial government shutdown

Tuesday was the statutory deadline for passing an entire state budget. But lawmakers likely won’t be back for a couple of weeks

Governor Gretchen Whitmer was in northern Michigan today to sign the new pre-K-through 12th grade education budget.

Past efforts to expand the sales to services have failed. A law adopted in 2007 was widely panned and quickly repealed

A landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that won final congressional approval on Wednesday includes a provision meant to force states to allocate…

An education advocacy group says Michigan should shield low-income students from the brunt of a potential K-12 funding cut in the coming school year…