LANSING — Cuts in the state budget are leaving some Northern Michigan school districts without community services that support kids and families around the region.

Great Start Collaboratives, or GSC’s, are community-facing organizations that provide educational and recreational activities for children and parents.

But families in the Wexford-Missaukee Intermediate School District will lose their collaborative next month, owing to the state’s cuts.

The state cut all support for GSC’s — close to $20 million — in this year’s budget plan.

Paris Philo, early childhood contact for Wexford-Missaukee, says that the reduction in funding will leave the district’s nearly 500 kids and families worse off.

“It impacts our literacy outreach, it impacts building healthy, strong families, and impacts

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