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Nearly thirty years after Proposal A, Michigan’s funding formula still sits on a racially engineered geography that leaves some districts structurally weaker than others, even when per‑pupil revenues look adequate on paper.

The Tennessee Center for Educational Finance and Policy (TNEFP) recently participated in the 51st Annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Conference in Chicago. Our Director, Dr. Rajah E. Smart, took the stage to present critical new research during the session, "The Spatial Echo of Inequity: A Critical Geography Analysis of the Sender-Receiver School Funding Model Across Michigan’s Metropolitan Regions."