[Via the Leelanau News Blog] A Glen Lakeschool board member has written a letter to the Detroit Free Press asking the paper's suburban readership to help remedy the inequities in the way downstate and Leelanau County area schools are funded.

Jeff Smith of Cedar writes in this letter published in the Freep that while the Birmingham school district receives about $12,000 per pupil from the state, Leelanau school districts like Glen Lake receive only about $7,000 per pupil. Smith urges the Free Presses readers in Birmingham and other wealthy districts to help to raise the level of funding for Leelanau's students to a comparable level, citing the many benefits such funding would have for the area's financially strapped schools.

See here for an earlier Leelanau Post story on the same subject.