Covert News

State House - District 66 Current Rep - Aric Nesbitt Old District Aric Nesbitt - 15,492 Thomas Erdmann - 7,850 The old 66th Bill Rogers district where I live is now mostly the 42nd District.

Stephanie Hawkins Burrage, the former superintendent of Covert Public Schools, says she and her school board were acting in good faith when the district went from a $4 million fund balance to a $3.2 million deficit in the span of a few years.

Taxes paid by Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert Township has made Covert Public Schools the best-funded district in Southwest Michigan.

With revenues of $10.2 million for 529 students this year, about $19,000 per child, Covert Public Schools is easily the best-funded school district in Southwest Michigan.

Taxes paid by the Palisades nuclear power plant, just south of Van Buren State Park, mean that Covert Public Schools has the highest per-pupil operating revenue in the region.