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MDE asks lawmakers to make school mental-health and meals funding recurring, roll back PD/virtual-day counting
Summary
Michigan education leaders praised recent expansions in school mental-health staffing and school meals but urged the Legislature to make specific program funding recurring and to restore in-person instructional time by rescinding provisions that count professional-development and virtual days as student instructional time.
Michigan education officials told the House Oversight Committee that targeted investments have increased school-based mental health personnel and school meal participation, but the department asked the Legislature to convert temporary grants to recurring funding and to restore more in-person student instructional time.
State Board President Pamela Pugh thanked the Legislature for recent investments in school-based…
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