Could the house legislation be buried somewhere in here?
Could the house legislation be buried somewhere in here?
Free Press Editorial editor Stephen Henderson has harsh words for some members of the Republican-controlled Michigan House of Representatives who passed a set of bills late Thursday designed to bail out the financially decimated Detroit Public Schools.
We really ought to round up the lawmakers who took money to protect and perpetuate the failing charter-school experiment in Detroit, sew them into burlap sacks with rabid animals, and toss them into the Straits of Mackinac.
He goes on in a column on Friday to call the legislation "garbage." The package now goes to the Senate.
He writes:
It is bought-and-paid-for work product from a legislative body whose leader, the maladroit thinker Kevin Cotter, has sold his caucus’ political soul to the high-bidding Devos family and other charter advocates and told himself it’s about belief, not money.
In the most crass terms, the House of Representatives is telling parents in Detroit that the best we deserve is what we have now. Public schools that have been under-invested, and torn asunder by depopulation and corruption. Charters opening and closing willy-nilly, many to profit off the public schools’ misery, but offering alternatives in name only to the public schools they claim to outperform. The bragging that charter advocates do about the sliver of daylight between the outcomes of charters and public schools would be roll-on-the-floor funny if it weren’t so condescending, and it it didn't heartily embrace the idea of calcified inequality.
Related article today:
State House Narrowly OKs Rescue of Detroit's Broke Schools