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MI School Aid Budget

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What is the MI School Aid Budget?

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.

How does MAPSA assist with the budget?

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. 

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What is the Michigan School-Aid Budget?

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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. 

WHAT ARE THE FACTS? 

  • The average public charter school is 32% more cost effective than the average traditional public school located in the same city. 
  • The average public charter school generates an average 36% higher return on investment per every dollar it spends than traditional public schools. 
  • Public charters don't receive facility funding through local bond and millage revenue. 

HOW CAN WE MAKE CHANGE? 

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." 

 

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