Michigan voters are taking state lawmakers to task in a new survey about the budget stalemate that has public schools caught in the middle.
A new poll shows a large bipartisan majority of voters believe state lawmakers have failed the state’s schools by not passing a budget for the upcoming academic year on time. It was supposed to be done by July 1.
Robert McCann is the director of the K-12 Alliance of Michigan and says people are fed up with all the partisan politics.
“It’s simply crazy,” McCann said. “For those of us that work and believe in public education in Michigan, this is beyond frustrating for us at this point.”
McCann says the survey also shows voters believe school funding should be a higher priority than road funding, and tying the two together is wrong.
“And that is a very direct and clear message to them that this ongoing stalemate in Lansing, in which school funding is being held up because they want to pay for roads out of it, is just wildly out of touch with where voters are in the state of Michigan.”
Something voters do support is withholding legislative paychecks until lawmakers voters approve a new budget.
