Senate PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Darrin Camilleri, D-Trenton, discusses the education budget with reporters Oct. 2. (Kyle Davidson/Michigan Advance)

As Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the state’s new education budget, she also made official a number of changes to the Michigan Public School Employees’ Retirement System, or MPSERS, which provides pension and health care benefits to public school teachers.

One of the biggest changes to that program was a $100 million cut to a program that, last year, offset a portion of the money that individual districts were required to pay into the system for pension and health care benefits of retired public school employees.

In the Fiscal Year 2026 budget, however, that specific reimbursement was rolled into the “foundation allowance” — t

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