Michigan received nearly $35 million in federal funds.

The center also examined federal funding for charters in the District of Columbia and 10 other states: Arizona, Ohio, California, Indiana, New York, Texas, Utah, Colorado, Florida and Wisconsin.

Michigan had 302 charter schools that educated 141,094 students in 2014-15, according to the state Department of Education. The number of charter schools and enrollment has doubled since 2000.

In June 2011, Michigan received a $43.9 million funding commitment from the U.S. Department of Education to fund the Charter Schools Program in the state until 2015. In the end, the state granted $42,169,568 of that money.

Its purpose, wrote then-state superintendent Mike Flanagan in a letter in August 2011, was to “strengthen the pool of applicants available to Michigan charter authorizers, support successful recipients toA legislative effort to shift part of the Point Ruston development on Commencement Bay from the City of Ruston and into the City of Tacoma is working its way through the halls of the state capital.

House Bill 2880, championed by Tacoma’s 27th District Representatives Jake Fey and Laurie Jinkins and 29th District Representative Steve Kirby, received a hearing from the House of Representatives Local Government Committee last week and committee discussions Wednesday when it was continued until after press time on Thursday. The bill, and its sibling in the Senate, SB 6487, would shift the Ruston portion of the $1.2 billion residential and commercial development into the city limits of Tacoma. The 97-acre, waterfront site currently equally straddles the city borders between Tacoma and Ruston.

The move comes as