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The State Board of Education tabled a resolution Tuesday that would oppose portions of the Fiscal year 2025 budget proposed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and heard highlights that would pull literacy supports from the department.

A top line of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy’s (EGLE) budget presentation before the House Appropriations Subcommittee Tuesday focused on landfill tipping fee increases, which would bring in an additional $80 million and create 36 full-time jobs.

During Wednesday's budget presentation, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer trumpeted that her administration will have paid off $21 billion in public employees and school employee retirement debt by the end of Fiscal Year 2025, according to Department of Technology, Management and Budget numbers.

While projecting the state's retiree healthcare system for teachers to be 100 percent funded in its next valuation, Gretchen Whitmer wants to redirect $670 million in otherwise additional public school retirement debt payments to other K-12 priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025.

MoReno Taylor II, the executive director of the Fund MI Future coalition, would "comfortably say" Michigan needs $10 billion in additional revenue, annually, to address all of Michigan's public infrastructure and education needs.