A2: Cost of Education

A post on The Michigan Messenger reports that a fundraising video for Greenhills School in Ann Arbor claims its $20,000-per-year tuition isn’t enough to support the school, which Gov. Rick Snyder’s daughter attends. From the report: “At the same time that the school to which Snyder sends his own child can’t make ends meet with funding of $20,000 per pupil, the governor recently pushed through and signed legislation that cuts per pupil public school funding by $370 per student, bringing state funding to $6,846 per student. Some schools could qualify for an additional $100 per student if they adopt what Snyder and GOP lawmakers call ‘best practices.’ Those practices include reducing employee costs by forcing an increase in insurance cost sharing and privatizing or consolidating some services.” [Source]