Wow, this is really a 180 from how I see things. How a successful educational program being available to parents who choose it is going to “destroy” Utica schools is beyond me. Also, it seems like a big focus is that someone might actually make some money educating kids. Isn’t that what public teachers, administrators, etc. do? And why is it that no one outside of a teachers union is qualified to teach? Even those from private schools who have much better track records in teaching than many of those earning big bucks in our public schools?

Have you checked out pending education legislation? Along with the failure of the union power grab in the last election and pending right to work legislation, I suspect this is what is driving this type of media coverage and content. I’ve attached a summary from Michigan House Bill 6004/Senate that comes from the State website. There have been multiple misrepresentations of this in the press and letters to editors by many SE Mich Superintendents in the last week so I found the actual government document helpful. It also shed light on how intentionally inaccurate many of these letters and statement are. One of the repeated erroneous statements is that the EAA would be run by someone appointed rather than elected. The second paragraph of this document states they will report to the State Board of Education (which we elected less than a month ago).

The legislation is one of the best things I’ve seen in a while. Someone is actually being empowered to fix schools in the bottom 5% of Michigan. I do find it ironic that this is all possible due to Barack Obama given how you and I voted:)

Tina