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.