Autos Joyrides News History Managing Education Change ichigan public school districts face more inevitable change. Students are on the move between districts, carried along by a number of social and political currents. Some districts grow as if the baby boomer 1950s are here again.
Alarmists call for shipping more public tax dollars to shrinking districts.
Those districts need to recover revenue that dwindled as enrollment dropped, the theory goes. Many Metro Detroit families could afford bigger homes and moved. And in the case of Redford Union and other districts, people moving in were single or young married couples without children. In 1994, Michigan approved measures to fund education on a per-pupil basis. State money for education now follows the student.