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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
After decade-long saga, Wayne County to move to new jail
WEBMar 23, 2024 · A decade after admitting defeat on a Fail Jail that was started and never finished, and after accruing $100 million of cost overruns on the second attempt, Wayne County has taken possession of a new jail.. As the Detroit Free Press’s JC Reindl reports, the March 18 handoff of the keys to the Wayne County Jail starts a six-month clock for various entities — the sheriff’s Office ...
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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.
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.
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
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.
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 Capitol Confidential
WEBMichigan’s spending bonanza must end, economic expert says. State will have $350 million left in fiscal year 2024-25 Read more. News Story.
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.
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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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