KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A group of educators and parents are collecting signatures on a petition drive to tax the rich to increase funding for public schools.
The organization is called Invest in MI Kids, and Kalamazoo parent Sheri Weber announced at last week’s Kalamazoo Public Schools Board of Education meeting last week that they have begun collecting signatures locally.
Constitutional amendment would add, beginning in 2027, an additional 5% tax on annual taxable income over $1 million for joint filers and over $500,000 for single filers. The tax would be in addition to existing state income taxes, and would be deposited into the State School Aid Fund and required to be used exclusively on local school district classrooms, career and technical education, reducing class sizes, and recruiting and retaining teachers…