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      <image:title>Blog Posts - K-12 Enrollment vs. Funding - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Total funding for Michigan K-12 schools rose from $12.7 billion to $21.3 billion between 2011/12 and 2025/26 – a 68% increase.   Audited full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment at Michigan K-12 schools declined from 1.5 million students to 1.34 million between 2011/12 and 2024/25 – an 11% drop.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The number of full-time equivalent students per FTE teacher decreased from 15.3 in 2011/12 to 13.3 in 2024/25 – a 13% drop, meaning smaller classrooms. Over the same timeframe, funding per FTE student has nearly doubled, from $8,500 to $16,000.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The share of Michigan’s eighth-grade students who are proficient in reading and math declined from 32% and 31%, respectively, to 24% between 2011 and 2024. Michigan fourth-graders rank 44th in the country out of 50 states in reading performance, even as funding per student has nearly doubled under the tax status quo.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog Posts - Media - The Hill ran GLPI’s op-ed about how healthcare costs are devouring the economy and how consumers can fight back by demanding price transparency. Read the op-ed here.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog Posts - Media - The Committee to Unleash Prosperity covered GLPI’s Michigan tax hike ballot measure report. Read their piece here.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog Posts - Media - The Center Square covered GLPI’s Michigan tax hike ballot measure report. Read their article here.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog Posts - Media - The Midwesterner ran GLPI’s op-ed, “Michigan tax hike ballot measure is all economic risk, no education reward.” Read the op-ed here.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog Posts - Media - Lars Larson hosted GLPI to discuss the Michigan tax hike ballot measure fight. Listen here.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog Posts - Media - The Detroit News ran GLPI’s op-ed explaining how price transparency is the solution to America’s healthcare cost crisis. Read the full op-ed here and an excerpt below.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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