LANSING, MI – Michigan education advocates are asking state lawmakers to sign a pledge to affirm funding levels for K-12 schools amid the ongoing stalemate finalizing a budget for the coming year.

The state’s Republican-led House and Democratic-majority Senate passed separate school aid proposals for 2025-26 earlier this year before legislators ultimately failed to meet a July 1 deadline to get a full budget before Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Since then, local school districts, which were required to pass their own budgets by that date, have begun the academic year without a final idea of what financial support will look like before the state’s fiscal year kicks off Oct. 1.

In a release on Thursday, Sept. 11, the K-12 Alliance of Michigan cited the uncertainty as a source of difficulty

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