As Michigan’s schools reopen their doors to students over the coming weeks, they’re doing so with a new challenge in front of them. While administrators and school boards are typically able to spend their summers planning for the upcoming year by filling open positions and ensuring every support is available to their students, that, unfortunately, couldn’t happen this year as they are missing a key piece of information; the amount of money they have available to spend.

Michigan lawmakers are, by law, required to pass a funding bill by July 1 every year that gives schools the critically needed information about their budget for the year. It not only provides the “per-pupil” base funding that schools receive, but key support funding levels for special education programs, literacy and math c

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