Let's
play
Fibbing or Funding
The
only game show where your school always gets less than your children
deserve!
Pick a door to
reveal your "prize"!
| Door #1 - Snyder
Plan |
Door #2 - House
plan |
Door #3 -
Senate plan |
Districts LOSE
between $2 and $32 per pupil
Claimed 2%
increase is mostly money taken from a "cookie jar" which had been diverted
earlier when cuts were even bigger
Sneaks in parts
of the "Oxford report" by forcing districts to pay for up to two online courses
per semester with no say over the provider, what "successful completion" means,
or what kind of credit to award.
Commits an
extra $10 million to Michigan Virtual University, and basically makes an $8
million "gift" to the EAA to support "student centered learning" |
Districts LOSE
between $18 and $52 per pupil
Eliminates best
practices grants, which went to most districts
Gives more
money for performance and tech grants, which serve many fewer
districts
Penalizes
districts which recently opened their contracts
Cuts the
increase to Great Start, making 4,200 fewer openings
Also sneaks in
the "Oxford report" provisions |
Districts LOSE
between $18 and $102 per pupil, on average
Eliminates help
to local districts with their pension system costs, and uses a smaller amount to
give a foundation increase to all districts - which is a windfall for charter
schools, which mostly are not in the pension system (they'll get an
increase)
Puts $22
million in an "education reserve fund" instead of giving it to our
students
Eliminates both
best practices and technology grants
Also sneaks in
the "Oxford report" provisions
Total spending
even less than the Governor! |
We need
to stop playing games with the
schools that serve our children and our
communities. Shifting money around to
make cuts look like tiny increases is
simply
disrespectful to the people of Michigan.
Here are some
facts they want us to forget:
---Spending on K-12 education has fallen 18%
over the last twelve years, once you factor in inflation.
---Even after taking a smaller number of students
into account, it has fallen 9% over twelve years
---It's not all the recession - we're spending a
shrinking share of our state's economy on
education, in good
times or bad.
Tell your
legislators and the Governor that we
need to stop playing
games and do right by our
children and our state! We need to give school the
resources they need to do what we ask them to do.
Speak out
today!
Steven
Norton
Executive Director
Michigan Parents for
Schools
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