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Michigan may get $2.6 billion, feds say
BY TODD SPANGLER AND LORI HIGGINS • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
JANUARY 23, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Just how much would the $825-billion federal stimulus plan be worth to hard-hit Michigan?
We're starting to find out.
The Congressional Research Service -- the agency that figures these sorts of things out for legislators -- says Michigan would get about $1.4 billion of the $38 billion in aid for school districts and $1.2 billion of the $43 billion for so-called "shovel ready" infrastructure projects such as highway and bridge work.
That is in addition to the usual federal budget that carries billions of dollars of aid to the states already.

(July 17,08 - Gongwer News) On a 31-4 vote the Senate approved the 2008-09 K-12 School Aid budget, despite some bipartisan hesitation on a change in the bill to the definition of Detroit's status as a first-class school district.
The budget provides for per-pupil funding increases of between $56 to $112 per pupil with the state's poorer districts getting the larger increases.
And the measure includes $15 million to help finance the start of Governor Jennifer Granholm's proposal to tackle dropout rates by creating smaller high schools.

Senate Republicans tied a rock to the ankles of Gov. Jennifer GRANHOLM's latest education reform ideas, but Democrats and Republicans alike supported a School Aid Fund (SAF) budget today that bumps up the state's payment to local school districts between $108 and $216 a student, setting the funding floor at $7,346 a child.