KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – It was a big-money night at the Kalamazoo Public Schools board meeting as they approved spending nearly a quarter of a billion dollars.
The big-ticket item was the $218 million budget for the coming school year, most of it going to salaries and benefits to keep teachers teaching, bus drivers on the road, food service workers in the kitchen and administrators holding it all together.
Trustee Carol McGlinn says that’s assuming the state comes through with the 2% increase in the foundation grant legislators have been talking about…