Welcome back to the show, everybody. Today we are very happy to be joined by Charlie Cavell and Miriam Faruqi, two of the organizers from Fund My Future. Welcome to the show.

Thank you for having us. Yeah, great to be here. So just so our listeners can sort of get an idea

of what your effort is all about, can you explain what the Invest in My Kids proposal is and if it

were passed, what it would do for Michiganders? Totally. I'll take that one, Miriam. So invest in my kids.

It gets a little complicated, but the big thing is, one, the problem, our schools have been

underfunded for decades in Michigan.

We are 44th in the country in school quality.

To solve that, we want to raise taxes on households that make

$1 million a year or more by 5%. And then put all that extra money. This is the complicated

part. Put all that extra money into K-12 public education. Sounds like a righteous proposal.

It's a 5% charge, right?

That's what's in the language right now.

Do you know, or are there any estimates of how much that would generate for schools in Michigan?

I think it's over a billion, like 1.7 billion with a B.

Nice.

And then do you guys know how that would end up being distributed, like throughout schools,

or are we getting there?

We need to get the money first and then we'll figure it out.

We have language in the proposal that would put it towards teacher recruitment and retention,

towards classroom needs, towards, and related to classroom needs includes after school programming most things related to

schools so you know yeah something like an over 10% increase in the school aid fund for statewide

school funding instantly it's something like how a lot of that's good too like a lot of teachers

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