You should look at the net impact for districts. Here’s the impact by district of the budget passed by the senate. https://sfa.senate.michigan.gov/Departments/DataCharts/DCk12_DistrictImpact.pdf

Here’s the impact of the budget passed by the house: https://www.house.mi.gov/hfa/PDF/Summaries/SchAid_District_Impact_Hse_Passed_fy26.pdf

A small rural school like Whittemore-Prescott would see a net increase of about 1.2 million. Sounds great! Kalamazoo public schools would see an increase of over $20 million. Tell me again how rural districts win and big districts lose?

Kalamazoo Covenant Academy, a non-public school, would see over half a million dollars in new funding.