education budget

Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a $23.4 billon education budget Tuesday that includes a guarantee the state will pay for at least two years of post-high school learning.

On today's episode, Gongwer reporter Elena Durnbaugh detailed the negotiations behind yesterday's new state budget. We unpacked some of its most important items, including funding for education.

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

There are two school aid bills, one pending in the state House, and one just passed by the Senate as part of a larger budget package. Public school advocates say they include some measures educators and school districts have long sought.

Michigan’s governor announced Monday the people who will serve on a government council to involve parents in the education budget-making process.

Whitmer said the state needs to build on the momentum of the record education budget she just signed, and provide relief to families and teachers hurt by inflation.