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Nolan Chappell

High school co-op

Nolan Chappell is a high school co-op with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He is a senior at Dow High School in Midland, MI.

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Dan Crane

University of Michigan Law School

… College and the University of Chicago Law School. He previously taught at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, and was a visiting …

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Bradley A. Smith

Capital University Law School

… Professor of Law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, where he taught Election … and his J.D., cum laude from Harvard Law School.

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Member of state ed board called for ending charter schools

Board of Ed member who said in 2016, ‘charter schools should end,’ among those voting to have state, school districts, veto new charter schools

… Department of Education and local school districts veto power over the creation of new charter schools, which would be a dramatic … called for an end to charter schools Mitchell Robinson, a professor … regularly criticized charter schools, both on his personal website … Eclectablog, he compared charter schools to private prisons. “As with …

State Board of Education Resolution Would Strangle School Choice in Michigan

Under the guise of improving transparency, board attacks charter schools

… resolution that would end charter schools as we know them in Michigan. … where and whether charter schools are allowed to open or expand. … will operate.” As charter schools are an alternative to conventional … the opening of a new charter school in their territory. Current … to authorize new charter schools, and this is how most charter …

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No free lunch: Students aren’t embracing Michigan’s no-cost school meals

There’s been a mere 8% increase in students eating taxpayer-paid school lunches in Michigan

… income students in public schools. The Legislature added $160 million to the school aid budget to provide free … for all 1.3 million public school students in Michigan. Whitmer … story. In 2016 the state’s schools fed an average of 784,195 … low-income kids. More than 1,500 schools in Michigan participated in …

Are poor urban districts really underfunded?

If you want to help schools, throw out the funding myth and demand accountability

School funding is complicated, and people can believe a lot … evidence says otherwise. Schools in Michigan received an average … governments in the 2022-23 school year, according to the latest … average. Benton Harbor Area Schools received $31,155 per student. Flint Community Schools took in $29,640 per student. …

Michigan Charter School Wars

… standout Jalen Rose opened a new charter school in his hometown of Detroit. He's one … which limits the number of charter schools that can be approved by state universities, the most common charter school authorizers. Michigan lawmakers can … on university-authorized charter schools in Michigan. This attempt is not …

Who Owns Public School Students?

School district’s legal case says it does

… question: Who owns public school students? Earlier this month, … between two metro Detroit school districts. The proceedings … decade, when Warren Consolidated School District first sued the School District of the City of Hazel … a typical American public school.” Warren officials asserted …

State takes aim at charter schools

Transparency claims don’t hold water, could put charters out of business

… that could regulate charter schools out of existence. The resolution … claims about lack of charter school transparency. And this could … consequences for these public schools, which are already subject … regulations, for Michigan’s charter schools. But as public entities subject … Information Act, charter schools must comply with the same …

In Detroit schools, nothing succeeds like failure

Conventional schools get more money to do worse, while charter schools do better with less

Charter schools outperform conventional public schools in Detroit despite getting … the best open enrollment schools in Michigan. Their success … best open-enrollment middle schools in Detroit are charter schools, according to U.S. News & …

Charter School-Prison Comparison Misses the Mark

Analyzing recent attacks on school choice

This year’s back-to-school season has brought out more than … John Oliver skewered charter schools with 18 minutes of uninformed … the explosion of charter schools in the last decade has created parallel school systems — both allegedly public, … these independent public schools have a positive or, at worst, …