Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has signed a $16 billion budget that covers K-12 education, community colleges, and the state’s 15 public universities. The budget gained bipartisan support in the state legislature, but it aroused the skepticism of some who are critical of a $2.5 million stipend that could lay the groundwork for private school vouchers.
“Getting a budget signed is not the most exciting thing,” Snyder told a group of educators and students at James R. Geisler Middle School in Commerce Township, which is part of the Walled Lake school district. “But this is an unprecedented investment in our kids.”
