Campaign to Keep the Promise to Michigan's Children

Keep the Promise is a coalition created in response to the State's success in the lawsuit known as "Durant III."  By use of what State Court of Appeals Judge Janet Neff calls a "shell game," the state argues that it is providing money for both general education - as required by the Constitution - and special education - an added mandate required to be financed by the State by the Headlee Amendment, by - in essence - dividing the same pot of money and simply labeling part of it general ed and part of it special ed, but without providing new funds.