Introduced
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The executive recommendation for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008-2009 school aid budget. This would appropriate $13.515 billion, compared to $13.006 billion, which was the FY 2007-2008 amount appropriated in 2007 (which includes supplemental budgets and executive order changes adopted in addition to the previous year’s budget). The budget includes the first installment of debt service on some $300 million in borrowing proposed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm to build new small high schools in certain communities (primarily Detroit). It would raise the minimum per-pupil foundation grant by $108 per pupil at higher-spending schools, and $216 at lower spending ones. The budget also proposes funding reductions for K-8 charter schools.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
