Muskegon Public Schools parent group calls for more funding, partnerships with officials

Muskegon Public Schools parent group calls for more funding, partnerships with officials | MLive.com:
"Griffin outlined partnerships that she believes need to take place to help students, including a collective effort to seek alternatives and best practices related to pepper spray use in school buildings.
The use of the chemical substance became an issue recently when police at the high school used pepper spray to subdue a March 26 fight that broke out between two girls and spread to other students in the cafeteria."
.....Bremer pleaded for additional school funding so students could have more resources, like basic school supplies. 

Churches and community groups have stepped in to pick up the slack, but that's not enough to make up for deficient funding, Bremer said.
"All those things that we have had in the past have been stripped away. 

Please let us have them back. Please fund us. 

Basic things are gone," Bremer said.
After the conference, she told MLive and The Muskegon Chronicle that funding cuts have led to a shortage of highlighters, white dry board erasers and No. 2 pencils that the schools use for MEAP testing.