It calls for hundreds of dollars in additional funding for students in a bid to increase resources for school districts around the state. Now, lawmakers will go to work negotiating their own proposal.

Under Whitmer’s request, $1 million is earmarked for the Attorney General’s Office to review events surrounding the 2021 Oxford shooting.

Beyond a historic 4.1% hike in per-student funding and a bid to intensify academic transparency, the list of recommendations would largely uphold existing priorities and programs for 1.4 million public school students.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office handed legislators her proposed budget Wednesday, laying out how it thinks the state should spend $83.5 billion in the next fiscal year. (Feb. 5, 2025)