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Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm's proposed school funding plan provides a $108 to $216 increase in per-pupil funding for school districts and K-12 schools, but less money for charters that serve grades only in K-8. Charters serving grades K-8 students would receive only 70 percent of the increase, while schools that offer some high school grades will receive 70 to 100 percent. Only 20 percent of charter schools are K-12, said Gary Naeyaert of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies. Meanwhile, 96 percent of the traditional public school districts are K-12. "It is offensive to those particular K-8 (charter) students to say they are less deserving of a full funding increase in the new school year," Naeyaert said. "The premise of the foundation grant is that every child is worth the same thing."
Source: Grand Rapids Press
Date: 03/09/2008
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