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Tag: Tim Bledsoe

Parental Choice IS Local Choice

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Sat Aug 27, 2011 at 06:19:46 PM EST
Tags: Schools, Gross Pointe, Tim Bledsoe, Dems, Elite, Snyder, Charter, Public, Michigan (all tags)

No wonder Johnny can text, knows even the most obscure members of the black Eyed Peas, but doesn't know that the constitution is the law of the land, Ben Franklin isn't ONLY a drug store and for all intent & purposes cannot read.

The lefties have it wrong yet again.

Gross Pointe schools either do not want "certain elements" from other school districts in their schools or they are ignorant of the needs of kids getting shafted in certain areas throughout the state. From the Oakland Press:

"My personal point of view is when you take away local control of education, you essentially steal a community's destiny," board president John Steininger said.

Steininger is referring to the attempts by the Snyder administration's plan to have all schools participate in the "schools of choice" program, the legislature's next set of reinvention changes. Democrat Rep. Tim Bledsoe, Grosse Pointe, is worried that a mandatory schools of choice program would be the "death blow" to local control.

"If your school board cannot control its boundaries and who is allowed to attend your schools, there just isn't much left that Lansing can't determine," Bledsoe said. "The school board is left to hire and fire the superintendent and that's about it."

Perhaps he thinks there is a conservative element to it?

A little more below.

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