Lawmakers may strip financially troubled school districts of the choice of accepting assistance from a state emergency manager to balance their budgets, two years after giving school boards options to lower their deficits. A five-bill package that passed a House committee Thursday includes a bill empowering State Treasurer Kevin Clinton to install an emergency manager in a school district that fails to adhere to a budget deficit reduction plan through early intervention measures. Since Public Act 436, the emergency manager law, took effect in March 2013, two school boards including Pontiac and Benton Harbor, have agreed to financial reform goals in consent agreements with the state to avoid emergency management. The bills now advance to the floor of the House for consideration before the Legislature adjourns Dec. 18 for the year. The Republican-controlled Senate passed the bills Dec. 3.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 06:25:30 +0000
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