Advocates: find funds for Mich. schools

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - School advocates and Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm are keeping the pressure on Michigan lawmakers to raise more money for education.

Hundreds of students, parents and school officials are rallying Tuesday at the state Capitol. Granholm is scheduled to head to Mason later Tuesday for another of her round-table discussions with educators about school funding cuts.

School funding will be cut by $127 per student in December unless state lawmakers agree this month to raise taxes or set aside more revenue for education.

The cut would come on top of a budget bill signed into law last month that slashes school funding by the equivalent of $165 per student.

Thirty-nine of the state's better-funded districts lost an additional $52 million.