Insider Intelligence

On Tuesday, Governor Rick Snyder signed a supplemental funding bill appropriating $48.7 million to Detroit Public Schools (DPS).  The additional funds will ensure DPS has enough money to remain open through the end of the current school year.  Without the additional appropriation, DPS only had enough funds to remain open for a couple of weeks.  […]

On Thursday the Senate passed and the House concurred in a bill appropriating $47.8 million of the state’s tobacco settlement funds to the Detroit Public Schools (DPS).  Without the appropriation, DPS would only have few weeks of funding available, after that time teachers and staff would not have been paid.  While the House passed version […]

This week, the House passed a two-bill package providing a $48.7 million appropriation for the Detroit Public Schools (DPS), using funds from the tobacco settlement money.  Without the supplemental, Judge Steven Rhodes, DPS’ transition manager, testified that the district wouldn’t have funding to pay teachers after April 8, 2016.  The appropriation was tie-barred to legislation […]