[MichCapCon]

MI ping on the school consolidation scam

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I can do my own quick study with out spending a dime. Bigger government will not save money. DAH?

[The Great RJ]

It isn't the number of school districts as much as the administrative and unions that are to blame. If two districts merge in Michigan I bet that the number of administrators will not decline, though teachers will be laid off. The recent fight by a teacher's union in Michigan to keep a Viagra benefit in their health plan at a cost of almost $1 million while several hundred teachers were laid off in the same district shows the union priorities.

Two fixes that states could do: First, establish maximum administrator to student dollar ratios. Second, ban unions in schools or at least make union membership optional and strikes by teachers illegal.

[Grumplestiltskin]

“Consolidating School Districts Won’t Save Michigan $600 Million”

“Consolidating” school districts has _nothing_ to do with saving money.

It’s all about consolidating POWER and CONTROL, and removing them further and further from parents and local influence.

Always was, always will be.