School funding has always been tied to the number of students in the classroom.

LANSING, Mich. – Starting Monday, hundreds of Michigan school districts had to offer at least 20 hours a week of in-person instruction to receive all of a minimum $450-per-student increase in emergency pandemic funding. Those with five-day schedules must provide at least 20 hours of weekly face-to-face instruction to qualify for the supplemental dollars. “Some Michigan schools have offered some form of in-person instruction for the entire academic year when they were allowed to do so. There’s no reason that can’t be the case everywhere in the state.”Districts that were not already providing 20 hours had less than two weeks to alter their schedules after the law was signed by Democratic Gov. Related: 400 Eisenhower High School students quarantined amid COVID outbreak; School returns to remote learning