The House Fiscal Agency has analyzed the per-pupil increases local schools will see next year. Note how much higher the increases are for the charter schools over the school districts. Note how our most struggling and consolidating districts, Ypsilanti and Willow Run, get the same increase as Ann Arbor. Note how two of our local non-profit charters (yes, most are for-profits) have below-average increases compared to the other charters (and for one of them, compared to the school districts as well). And yet--not a single district or charter school--not ONE--will keep up with inflation this year, because the luckiest schools will get a 1.57% increase, and the least lucky (yes, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Willow Run--you win the lottery!) will get a .02% increase. Meanwhile, inflation is estimated at 1.9%.
Read an excellent (as usual!) explanation of the school funding mechanism and implications--along with an "infographic"--from Michigan Parents for Schools here.
School District
|
Amount of Increase
(“Net Change without Prefunding”)
|
Ann Arbor
|
$5
|
Chelsea
|
$11
|
Dexter
|
$9
|
Lincoln
|
$67
|
Manchester
|
$21
|
Milan
|
$64
|
Saline
|
$14
|
Whitmore Lake
|
$64
|
Willow Run
|
$5
|
Ypsilanti
|
$5
|
Average District Increase
|
$26.50 (this is not weighted by number of students; if it were, it would look worse)
|
Charter Schools
|
Amount of Increase
|
Arbor Preparatory High School
|
$58
|
Ann Arbor Learning Community
|
$58
|
Central Academy
|
$57
|
East Arbor Charter Academy
|
$58
|
Eastern Washtenaw Multicultural
|
$58
|
Fortis Academy
|
$58
|
Honey Creek
|
$20
|
New Beginnings
|
$58
|
South Arbor
|
$110* (I’m not 100% sure this is
correct because it is so much higher than anything else)
|
South Pointe Charter
|
$58
|
Washtenaw Technical Middle
College
|
$42
|
WSC Academy
|
$58
|
Average Charter Increase
|
$57.75 (this is not weighted by number of students)
|
