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Tuesday afternoon in the library at East Kentwood High School, Governor Gretchen Whitmer sat at a table surrounded by students and signed a statewide education budget bill 27 years in the making.
The bill calls for $17.1 billion in spending on preschool-12 schools in Michigan in the upcoming year, an increase of $1.6 billion compared to last year, with no increase in taxes.
The bill also guarantees each school district will receive at least $8,700 in funding per student from the state. And, for the first time since 1994, all public school districts will get the same minimum funding.
“We’ve been chasing this goal longer than any of these students have been alive,” Whitmer said, nodding toward the students gathered in the East Kentwood library. “Today we get to realize it.”
Credit Dustin Dwyer / Michigan Radio
A worker, sitting at her desk, fingers poised on the keyboard. Busy hallways. Occupied meeting rooms. Mundane scenes that returned Monday, bringing – to some at least – a twinge of excitement.
“It feels great to be back in the office,” said Steelcase CEO Jim Keane on Monday morning, smiling mask-less in a sun-lit office area inside the company’s Grand Rapids headquarters.
Keane had just finished showing the governor around the space, explaining Steelcase’s plan to first invite, then encourage, then expect workers to return to the office.
“It’s really an amazing morning,” Keane said. “This morning in our meeting, one of our marketing people who was presenting, paused in the middle of her presentation and said, ‘You know this is the first time I’ve been in a room with people in a long time … and it feels amazing.’”