Report: Michigan took $4.5 billion from K-12 funds to plug budget holes since 2010

By CATHERINE SHAFFER • AUG 23, 2018

Michigan has shifted $4.5 billion from K-12 education funding to universities and community colleges since 2010. That’s according to a new report from the Michigan League for Public Policy.

The funds have been appropriated from the School Aid Fund, established in 1955 as an amendment to the Michigan Constitution. The School Aid Fund is used exclusively to fund K-12 schools. Funds for post-secondary education, on the other hand, come from the General Fund.

The fund shifting started under Governor Jennifer Granholm’s administration as a one-time appropriation of $208 million to plug a hole in the budget created by the Great Recession.

It was supposed to be paid back.

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https://www.michiganradio.org/post/report-state-took-45-billion-k-12-funds-plug-budget-holes

THIS DAY IN HISTORY April 29, 1962: Paulings Protest Nuclear Testing

#tdih 1962 Before attending a White House dinner for Nobel Prize winners, Linus and Ava Pauling joined other demonstrators, marching outside the White House against U.S. resumption of atmospheric nuclear testing. Read more below.
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https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/paulings-protest-nuclear-testing/