A bill to
lift the cap on certain types of charter schools in Michigan is
headed to the Gov. Rick Snyder's desk for approval today.
University-sponsored charters (and online charters!) will be
unlimited by 2015. Michigan currently has 255 charters and some
pretty long waiting lists.
Unsurprisingly, Michigan public schools superintendent Rob Glass
is
displeased. Because all these new schools mean that his schools
won't keep getting the same amount of money for doing the same
thing forever. Unfair!
"We might see a fundamental shift that takes us where we may
never see where we are today again," he said at a well-attended
school board meeting Thursday night at the Doyle Center. "We have
to think about how we're going to compete in this new
landscape."...
The changes will also dilute the funding available to districts
and force them to jockey with new competitors for those dollars,
Glass argued."We’ll now have to enter these markets, not because it’s where
what we want to do, but just to retain the resources we have," he
said.
More
Reason on charter schools.
Steven Brill talks with Reason.tv about the
joys of choice:
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