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Snyder signs bill for Career Tech Education equipment increases

Detroit News

Lansing, MI - Michigan will spend nearly 3-million dollars more on Career Tech Education equipment upgrades and programming this fiscal year under a supplemental education budget bill signed by Governor Rick Snyder. The legislation approved yesterday boosts spending $5.4-million overall. It includes the restoration of

$1.2-million Snyder vetoed previously, including one million for an online math tool. Funding for career and technical education equipment would rise to $12.5-million, from $9.6-million.

The law also caps the average amount of time spent on the math and English language arts sections of the state standardized ‘M-Step’ test at 3-hours for any one grade level.

Snyder says increased spending on Career Tech Education is "critically important in bolstering our state's talented workforce" and preparing students with the skills needed to fill jobs.

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