Education Policy Innovation Collaborative | EPIC Team Provides Testimony to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on PreK-12

Madeline Mavrogordato

Michigan State University, EPIC Director

Jason Burns

Michigan State University, EPIC

A Presentation from EPIC

EPIC addresses Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Pre-K-12

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DATE: January 27, 2026

Madeline Mavrogordato, EPIC’s Director, and Jason Burns, EPIC’s research Specialist, presented findings from their recent research report which focuses on Michigan Education Funding Then and Now.

See the full presentation here.

See EPIC’s testimony here, beginning at 2:35.

EPIC works with state and district partners to create a targeted research agenda to learn which reform strategies are most effective, where, when and for whom.

Most images of students and teachers on site are courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action

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