When lawmakers finally passed Michigan’s K-12 budget this month — 95 days late and behind closed doors — districts like mine were already weeks into the school year. We had teachers in classrooms, buses on the road and students learning, but no clear picture of what the state expected of us or how we’d pay for it.

Now that the details are emerging, one sentence buried in hundreds of pages of last-minute boilerplate says it all: districts may no longer count a single virtual instructional day.

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