Public Education Needs to Be Fixed…
Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News
June 2, 2013
Not much to add here, really. At the Mackinac Policy Conference last week, there was much talk about improvements to public education, including guest speakers Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee. It struck me — in ten years when the Democratic president proposes an overhaul to the public education system that includes vouchers and charter schools, it will be interesting to see how exactly Republicans turn on their ideas and decide it had always been lousy, stinkin’ socialism.