How Michigan's New $54.9 Million Budget Will Affect You

By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News: World
Sat, 07/02/2016 - 2:02am

(AP) — Detroit school children, Flint residents and residents across the state will be affected when the next state budget takes effect in three months. — have a child who goes to a parochial or other private school, the school could qualify for part of $2.5 million set aside to reimburse nonpublic schools for the cost of meeting state requirements such as safety drills and immunization reporting. Public school groups say the aid is unconstitutional and likely will file a lawsuit. — live in Detroit, the budget includes the first payment toward a $617 million bailout and restructuring of the city's debt-ridden public school district. The state plans to graduate 65 new troopers and 10 new motor carrier officers, bringing trooper ranks to their highest level since 2002. — The budget sets aside $2 million that public and private schools can compete for to make security upgrades. — It will cost more to look up driver records — $11 instead of $8, raising $14 million to replace computer systems at the secretary of state's office. The spending also is intended to specifically help children — subsidizing child care, providing healthy food to reduce lead poisoning risks and covering psychotherapy sessions. — nearly $3 million to draw down all available federal funding for a program that provides low-interest loans to municipalities for drinking water infrastructure upgrades. — are an advocate of re-examining Michigan's law that treats 17-year-old criminals as adults, the state is spending $500,000 to study the savings of considering them as juveniles. — want to see indigent defendants get better legal representation, the budget includes $1.3 million more to implement minimum standards and to monitor counties' compliance. — The budget expands dental coverage to 131,000 low-income 13- to 21-year-olds in Wayne, Oakland and Kent counties, the final step toward implementing the Healthy Kids Dental p

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