The roughly $24.3 billion education spending bill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Thursday includes $125 million in targeted grants for public schools in mostly districts represented by Democrats in the Legislature's majority party.
The money is paying for projects that would normally be funded through local property taxes, school district debt or their regular operating budget. Instead, the funding was provided directly from the state government to select districts and schools.
"Our record bipartisan education budget is going to make a real difference in the lives of our kids, in the events in our classrooms, in districts all across our state and campuses," Whitmer said at the bill signing Thursday in Suttons Bay in Leelanau County. "... Our goal is to help everyone to make it in Michigan by investing in education at every level.”
