2. Education Funding in Michigan Jon Roach TE 301

3. Funding Education in Michigan Is the Michigan lottery worth the gamble?

4. Introduction How much money is going toward public education? How much of this money is coming from the Michigan Lottery?

5. Our state budget for fiscal year 2004 is 39 billion dollars How much of this 39 billion goes toward education in Michigan?

6. You’ve all heard of Keno, now lets play Jon-O The game is going to help show how the state budget is dispersed

14. How much is 39% ? The total education spending for 2004 comes to 12.4 billion 11.2 billion comes from the state budget 1.2 billion is federally funded

15. How much of the Education fund comes from the lottery? Five % of this 11.2 billion dollars comes from lottery Five % equals 613.5 million dollars This is out of a total of 1.726 billion, or about 35% This was second on lottery revenue distribution only to payout to winners The lottery increases it’s contribution almost every year, last year it was a 4.5% increase

16. Is the lottery a good source of money for education? The Michigan lottery was implemented in 1973 It was decided at the time of its introductory to supply money from its revenues to Michigan Education However, at the same time, other avenues of support for Michigan education were closed, canceling its affects

17. Michigan’s top priority is Education Since 1990, investment in education has grown over $7 billion, a 90% increase! Governor Granholm wants to increase the Education spending to over 14 billion

18. Congratulations

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