What does it mean for your community and how did your state representative vote?

The House’s education budget for 2025-26 provides record funding for schools throughout Michigan, increasing the per-pupil foundation allowance — the base amount each school receives per student — to $12,000. That’s a 20% increase over the current year, and a much larger boost than what Gov. Whitmer proposed in her budget recommendation earlier this year and what Senate Democrats approved in their K-12 budget.

The plan also moves away from Lansing’s one-size-fits-all mandates by loosening restrictions on how schools can use their funding. Instead of bureaucrats dictating spending by awarding specific pots of money to each district to use on things like transportation or new textbooks, the House budget empowers local districts to invest in what matters most for their students. That could be reading programs, mental health services, transportation, school safety improvements, lunch, after-school tutoring, and more.

The list below includes each representative’s vote and breaks down how much additional funding local schools would receive from House Bill 4577, according to data from the House Fiscal Agency: