LANSING, MI (WHTC) – The state Senate School Aid Education Subcommittee endorsed a K-12 budget for Fiscal 2016 that MIRS News reports largely concurs with many of Governor Snyder’s proposed reforms. Mandatory third-grade reading proficiency, career and tech education spending, at-risk funding for schools and increased per-pupil allocations were retained in some form. The full Senate will now take up the package, as state lawmakers continue working in earnest on next year’s overall state spending plan.
Meanwhile, the state House Appropriations General Government Subcommittee moved forward a proposed Fiscal 2016 spending plan that shifts 5.8 million dollars from the City of Detroit to other municipal governmental units. It’s a two-percent decrease from what Governor Snyder wanted to allocate for the Motor City. Other items in the bill include no funding for the state’s film incentive program, along with a nearly 29 percent cut for the Michigan Strategic Fund. The full House now takes up the matter.
