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Michigan pits small, big schools for funding. It’s an unfair fight, leaders say

Small rural districts with less than 1,000 students, serving 87,000 kids, face barriers to accessing a share of $351 million in competitive state grants, officials say.

Small rural Michigan schools say competitive state grants leave their students behind, because administrators do not have time to apply. Superintendents describe writing grants between recess duty, substitute teaching, and even snow removal. Michigan offers more than 100 grants worth…

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Michigan pits small, big schools for funding. It’s an unfair fight, leaders say

In a small office in a tiny school district in a county with no traffic signal, Michelle Wesner sits at her desk looking worried. On her computer screen is an application for an $80,000 state grant for a welding career…

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Bridge Michigan broke the news in on Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
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