The Oakland Schools Board of Education voted 3-1 to approve a resolution to place a regional enhancement millage on the August 4 primary ballot.<\/p>\n
School boards that represent a majority of the total student population in the county passed resolutions requesting the board to vote to place the millage on the ballot.<\/p>\n
The enhancement millage would be a 1.5-mill levy over six years that would generate $125 million in its first year. Over the six years it would generate an average of $781 per pupil for all students enrolled in public schools, public academies and charter schools.<\/p>\n
If passed by county voters, the millage would be collected county-wide, distributed equally by Oakland Intermediate School District (ISD) to all public school districts and eligible public school academies.<\/p>\n
\u201cOakland Schools does not receive additional funding should voters decide in favor of the millage,\u201d said ISD Superintendent Kenneth Gutman. \u201cThe funds are not kept by the ISD.<\/p>\n
\u201cRevenue is distributed to local school districts and eligible public school academies based on a per-pupil formula. Each school district and eligible public school academy gets funding proportional to enrollment, not property wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Across the state, almost half the student population live in counties with a dedicated school millage.<\/p>\n
They include Macomb, Wayne, Kent, Midland, Kalamazoo, Monroe, Muskegon and Ottawa counties. Those eight represent 600,000 students, or 44% of the total state student population.<\/p>\n
The millages range from .085-mills in Kent County to 1.9-mills in Wayne County, which has had a countywide millage in place since 2016.<\/p>\n
The Oakland County proposal would cost $150 per year on a home valued at $200,000. Funds received by the 28 county districts would be unrestricted and could be used for anything from salaries to construction projects to purchasing equipment.<\/p>\n
If approved by voters, collection of the new millage is slated to begin in December 2026.<\/p>\n
Information about the proposed enhancement millage can be found online by visiting www.OaklandEnhancementMillage.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oakland Schools Board of Education voted 3-1 to approve a resolution to place a regional enhancement millage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,106687],"class_list":["post-236147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-school-enhancement-millage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}