Why Michigan’s rural schools wrestle with funding, staffing challenges

LANSING

Public education advocates are pushing for more per-pupil state aid to schools in high-poverty areas and isolated rural communities and for special education students.

Alex Stamm is the education policy analyst at the Michigan League for Public Policy, a research and advocacy organization.

She said the current system of per-pupil funding can be unfair to rural schools.

With per-pupil funding, …