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The Michigan Senate will carry two major legislative issues with it into 2016.
Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof says his chamber won’t take up energy policy reforms or the governor’s plan to help Detroit Public Schools in the next two to three weeks.
Instead, he says the Senate will start fresh in 2016 on both issues.
Appeasing all of the stakeholders, including charter schools, is one of the hang-ups with the DPS plan.
Meekhof also isn’t sure where the money will come from to pay for the governor’s proposed $710 million debt relief plan.
The proposal, which includes creating a second school district to manage the day-to-day educating of DPS students while the original district works off its debt, haven’t been introduced in the Senate yet.
Meekhof says that should happen in a week or two however the plan was supposed to be introduced in early November but wasn’t.
