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The report argues Michigan’s school funding is both inadequate and inequitable, failing to keep pace with modern educational costs and concentrating poverty without targeted resources. 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The Michigan Achieves! Campaign has been hugely successful in many respects. In partnership with many public leaders, organizations and stakeholders, our organization has taken bold  \naction, leading to policy change; effective coalitions; major new strategies and investments in critically needed levers for improvement such as third-grade reading; and new civic infrastructure designed to build educators’, parents’, policymakers’ and other stakeholders’ capacity to play a role in improvement efforts for all students to succeed. And we have inspired many others to take action, too.  \nThe need for this campaign has arguably never been greater. Michigan ranks sixth from the bottom in improvement for 4th grade math among all students from 2003 to 2019, according to recently released data from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) . Compared to other states, Michigan ranks fifteenth from the bottom for improvement in 4th grade reading from 2003 to 2019, according to the NAEP, also known as the Nation’s Report Card. With such low rates of improvement, it will be difficult for Michigan to reach its top ten goals for both educational progress and performance. Gaps in achievement and opportunity continue to be stark between students in the state, as well.  \nAverage scores for low-income, Latino and Black students in Michigan are lower than their higherincome and White peers, according to the national assessment, and Michigan falls below the national average for low-income and Black students in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math.  \nNever before, though, has our organization focused so deeply on school funding as we do in this new report, Michigan’s School Funding: Crisis and Opportunity. And that has been for good reason: money alone is insufficient for educational transformation, as leading education states demonstrate. As a datadriven, research-based policy, research, advocacy and technical assistance organization, we follow the  \n2  \nINTRODUCTION  \ndata. And the data tell us that many factors—not simply money—are important for driving dramatic improvement in student learning outcomes, especially for low-income students and children of color.  \nYet money matters. And that, too, is clear based on research. Money especially matters for students from low-income backgrounds. Increases in spending have been shown to improve educational attainment, lead to higher wages and reduce poverty in adulthood, particularly for students from low-income backgrounds.1 By one estimate, the lifetime earnings of Michigan’s current K-12 students could increase by $27 billion if their educational achievement matched the national average.2 In a state that is rebuilding and transitioning its economy and tax base from a manufacturing-based, old economy model to a robust knowledge-based economy, there is perhaps no more important investment to make to ensure our Great Lakes State becomes a Great Education and Great Economy  \nState—and catches up with therest of the nation and the world both economically and for talent.  \nIt’s also increasingly clear Michigan’s high-poverty public schools and districts do not have the resources they need to educate and support their students to learn at high levels. A recent report from the Education Law Center gave Michigan a “D”for how well it targets funding to its high-poverty districts, relative to its low-poverty districts.3 Similarly, an analysis by The Education Trust—our organization’s respected national division—found that Michigan ranks in the bo","cbCaib6HebIPdBUU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib6HebIPdBUU","pdf",4516324,52,"English","# Introduction\n## School improvement challenges\n## Funding inequity and inadequacy\n## Evidence on impacts of spending","[{\"question\":\"What does the report identify as Michigan’s main school funding problems?\",\"answer\":\"It characterizes Michigan’s funding system as unfair, deeply inequitable, and inadequate—unable to keep pace with modern educational costs and realities while not targeting districts with high concentrations of low-income students.\"},{\"question\":\"Which student groups face the largest achievement and opportunity gaps, according to the report?\",\"answer\":\"The report highlights lower average scores for low-income, Latino, and Black students, noting Michigan’s performance below national averages for low-income and Black students in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the report support the claim that money matters for student outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"It cites research indicating that increases in spending improve educational attainment, lead to higher wages, and reduce poverty in adulthood—especially for students from low-income backgrounds.\"}]","Michigan’s School Funding - Crisis and Opportunity | PDF",1792047745,131]