After weeks of uncertainty and missed deadlines in Lansing, Michigan families can finally see results. The state’s new education budget, approved after lawmakers missed the constitutional deadline for the first time in over a decade, restores stability to classrooms and cafeterias alike by extending free breakfast and lunch to every public school student statewide.
The delay left parents and educators across Detroit anxious about whether the meals that fed more than a million students last year would continue this fall.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s signature on the bipartisan $24.1 billion education budget locks in that continuation, saving Michigan families an average of $1,000 a year. For Detroit’s 50,000+ public school students, it ensures uninterrupted access to a program that many households depend on and for a district where over half of Detroit’s children live below the poverty line, it provides something schools cannot teach without: consistency…