The Michigan School-Aid Budget allocates funding for public education bodies, including traditional public and public charter schools. Funding is allocated on a per-pupil basis, but it isn't always equitable. Many public charter school students and students who live in communities with higher levels of poverty receive LESS to support their education.
Each year, MAPSA (MI's Charter School Association), along with thousands of public charter school advocates, works with elected officials to ensure that public charter school students are funded equitably and fairly and fight for facility funding through local bonds and millages.
Public schools are the beating heart of our communities - but often, community members, elected officials and local media don't include public charters in that group. As public education stakeholders, we have to build up those relationships and solidify our schools as critical community pillars.
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The Michigan School-Aid Budget allocates funding for public education bodies, including traditional public and public charter schools. While both entities provide 100% free and public education options to families across the state, public charter schools and traditional public schools are NOT funded equitably.
Every year, MAPSA (MI's Charter School Association) along with the support of thousands of charter educators, parents and allies, advocates to "close the gap" by working in partnership with elected officials to ensure those students (many of whom are charter students) funded the least see increases in funding at a higher rate than those students funded the most, so that over time, the gap between the highest-funded and lowest-funded districts "closes."
Michigan's Charter School Association
123 W Allegan, Ste 750
Lansing, MI 48933
Ph: (517) 374-9167