I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The key committees in the Michigan House and Senate have passed budget bills with cuts of varying sizes for K-12 education funding in FY 2012.
The Detroit News reports:
State aid for K-12 education would be reduced by $340 per student and schools would get only half an allowance for half-day kindergartners under a budget to be voted on today by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The committee will also decide on a higher education budget that would earmark $200 million from the School Aid Fund for universities. Community colleges would receive $198.5 millionfrom the School Aid Fund under a budget approved by the committee Wednesday…
The House on Wednesday passed a School Aid plan out of subcommittee that would retain a $170 per-pupil cut that is in effect, and then cut 3.7 percent from each district’s per-pupil foundation allowance. The cuts would range from $285 for most school districts to $331 for the highest-income districts. The plan needs the full House Appropriations Committee’s OK.
The House and Senate K-12 budgets would reduce per pupil funding by less than the $470 called for in the governor’s budget proposal.
Whatever the final number, those cuts can’t be good news for education in the state of Michigan.
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