Ann Arbor Public Schools to Make $25 Million in Budget Cuts, Layoff Notices Expected Soon

ANN ARBOR, April 2, 2024 ~ Compounding factors have led Ann Arbor Public Schools to a budget crisis, with the district recently announcing a massive $25 million in budget cuts that will result in layoffs ahead of the 2024-25 school year.

Some administration officials and teachers will receive pink slips in the coming weeks as part of the budget cuts to address the funding shortfalls district leaders blame on declining enrollment from the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent increase in staffing, increased wages, and pandemic-era funding drying up. Bridge Michigan education reporter Isabel Lohman told WJR‘s Guy Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, and Jamie Edmonds that, “Ann Arbor got about $27,000,000 in COVID relief funds from three rounds of federal pandemic relief, and they have spent almost all of that. They don’t have COVID dollars to back them up.“