Posted on 10/22/2015 8:43:15 AM PDT by MichCapCon
The Dearborn Press and Guide has repeated a myth still perpetuated by many in the media when it wrote that state funding has been cut to public schools.
A story about Glenn Maleyko, the new superintendent of Dearborn Public Schools, stated: Fewer people are going into teaching, which is understandable, he said. The pay scale is lower than what many professionals earn with a bachelors degree, and it takes longer these days for teachers to climb to the top of the pay scale, a change forced on districts by stagnant or reduced state funding.
ForTheRecord says: Despite numerous erroneous media reports over the past few years, state funding has not gone down in Michigan. It has increased in each of Gov. Rick Snyders five K-12 budgets.
In the case of Dearborn, total state funding has increased from $7,012 per pupil in 2010-11 (former Gov. Jennifer Granholms last budget) to $7,497 per pupil in 2014-15.
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