Michigan Capitol Confidential
WEBA Michigan News Source. News Story Michigan hasn’t defunded education. Lawmaker’s claim is false: Per-pupil funding from state sources increased more than $5,000 from 2012 to 2023 Read more
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WEBMichigan Capitol Confidential is the news source produced by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Michigan Capitol Confidential reports with a free-market news perspective. As news coverage in our state dwindles, it is important to have outside scrutiny of our elected officials and government bureaucracies.
Clinton County Regional Education Agency to funnel $18 million …
WEBAug 21, 2024 · When Michigan’s lawmakers created the current state budget, they used a Greater Lansing area education service agency to distribute millions of dollars in hand-picked projects to areas far from the capital city. The state budget routinely allocates grants to organizations selected by legislators ...
Michigan mom seeks just compensation in home foreclosure
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Four years after the Michigan Supreme Court unanimously ruled that counties can’t keep excess profits from tax foreclosures, one Michigan mom is fighting for $102,636 in home equity seized by Manistee County. Chelsea Koetter, a single mother of two boys, fell behind on her property taxes in 2018 and underpaid what she owed in 2021.
Educator behind embattled reading theory to keynote Troy School ...
WEBDec 8, 2023 · Lucy Calkins, the education professor whose work was disowned by Columbia Teachers College earlier this year, is set to appear as a keynote speaker at a Troy School District conference this weekend, called the Midwest Literacy Coaching Mini-Institute.. Some parents in the Southeast Michigan community say their school district needs to update its curriculum to embrace phonics, the reading ...
South Haven, home to short-term rentals for 100 years, has …
WEBJun 18, 2022 · South Haven is a small city on Lake Michigan in the western part of the state. It has long been a tourist destination, and short-term rental websites have made it easier for tourists to visit and homeowners to rent out their properties.
The CapCon Guide: What to know about right-to-work in …
WEBApr 22, 2023 · Since the repeal of Michigan’s right-to-work laws, many people have been confused about the effect the repeal will have on their workplace. They have been left wondering whether they can be forced to join a union, and whether they must pay for a union’s political activities.
State superintendent asks Michigan lawmakers for home school …
WEBJan 17, 2024 · Michigan state superintendent Michael F. Rice has called on lawmakers to require homeschool and private school parents to register their children with the state.
Michigan prison stays cost $48K per year; here’s how that breaks …
WEBJul 2, 2023 · On average, it costs Michigan $48,000 per year, per prisoner, to keep some 32,778 people incarcerated (as of June 16). Here’s how those costs break down, per the Michigan Department of Corrections. 70%: Facilities, staffing, utility payments, supply and operational costs
Michigan hasn’t defunded education
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Per-pupil school revenue from state sources was $7,440 in 2011-12, according to official data assembled by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. That amount reached $12,653 in the 2022-23 year. Total education expenditures were $18.5 billion in the 2010-11 school year, and the comparable figure for 2022-23 was $27.3 billion.