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  • The Republicans Who Blocked Charter School Choice

    09/23/2011 12:13:04 PM PDT · by MichCapCon
    Capitol Confidential ^ | 9/23/2011 | Ken Braun
    Before the creation of charter public schools in 1994, mere geography determined the education of Michigan’s public school pupils. Much like buying boots in the old Soviet Empire, parental choice was limited to accepting what the bureaucrats in the local education monopoly offered, or fleeing with the family across the border to another district (if you could afford it). Even today, a majority of charters have a wait list, and some must conduct lotteries to determine which parents get a choice over who teaches their kids. For last school year, one such lottery was used because a district had just...