Whitmer signs bill to send $4.4B in rescue funds to schools
David Eggert
LANSING Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday signed a supplemental spending bill that releases an unprecedented $4.4 billion in federal coronavirus rescue funding designated for Michigan s K-12 schools.
It is a significant influx of aid, particularly to traditional districts and charter schools with high numbers or percentages of children from low-income families.
Detroit, for instance, is getting $1 billion more than its entire general fund budget as originally adopted last fiscal year.
Legislation the Democratic governor is expected to sign next week would allot an additional $363 million in U.S. COVID-19 funds to ensure districts with more higher-income kids receive at least $1,093 more per student regardless of a federal formula the equivalent of 13% of the state s minimum base amount this fiscal year.
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New report: Pre-pandemic literacy has improved but will students be retained?
Third grade literacy has improved in Michigan according to a new report on Michigan’s Read by Grade 3 law from Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, the strategic research partner of the Michigan Department of Education.
But progress is threatened because of insufficient targeted funding and concerns that students have fallen behind during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This new report reviewed mostly pre-pandemic data beginning Sept. 2019 through May 2020. Overall, 45% of Michigan’s third graders rated proficient or above on Michigan’s standardized English language assessment, or M-STEP ELA, a slight improvement over 2017’s 44% proficiency rate, which was the first year of test results after the implementation of the law.
David Eggert
Michigan Office of the Governor via AP
In this Jan. 27 photo provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers her virtual State of the State address the state, in Lansing, Mich.
LANSING, Mich. More than 80% of Michigan school districts planned to offer some form of in-person instruction in February, which represented a more than 20 percentage-point increase over the previous month amid a decline in the coronavirus’ spread.
Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative said it was the largest monthly increase since the start of the academic year. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has strongly encouraged schools to offer a face-to-face option by March 1.