 schools raise taxes or reform  ever since the 2009 2010 school year started school administrators and school boards have been frantic in attempting to find extra revenue steams or make cuts to their budgets to make it through the school year parents teachers and administrators have been outraged and very vocal in their discontent about the legislatures rsquo lack of caring about the kids of michigan governor granholm is in the media whining daily about how we have short changed the children of michigan we all can agree that changes need to be made to our funding process for education the first change needs to be that schools can be assured by july 1 of each year what their funding will be for the next school year so they can depend on their revenue stream with that said let rsquo s talk about the other side of the issue with the state of the michigan economy the reduced tax revenues and people leaving michigan school districts must become more frugal with their budgetary decisions let s take the emotion out of the mix and look at the facts about what is really going on for a detailed analysis on the issue from the mackinaw center for public policy click on this link  300  schools raise taxes reform  