 education funding facts in michigan  democrats are constantly crying about how the mean republicans are short changing michigan rsquo s children they talk about reduced funding and how hard up the teachers are the truth is that funding for education has consistently exceeded the rate of inflation when other areas of government have suffered with michigan rsquo s schools doing so poorly it rsquo s time to look at our whole educational system and make some real changes that are in the best interest of our children for an article on the funding levels over the years click on the following story link  http wwwmlivecom politics indexssf 201402 kenbraunarerepublicansembehtml incartriver 