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Michigan Charter Schools Turn 25
« on: January 17, 2019, 04:06:05 pm »
Michigan Charter Schools Turn 25

Jan 17, 2019 by Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Quarter century later, educational choice needs renewed vigilance
By Ben DeGrow –

On this date 25 years ago, then-Gov. John Engler signed Public Act 362, legalizing the creation of public charter schools. Michigan was the eighth state to adopt a charter law — Minnesota pioneered it in 1991. Engler rightly saw greater choice and competition as a way to better bolster the effectiveness of public education and meet the needs of individual students.

First, the objective results achieved by Michigan charter schools have been consistently positive, better than sometimes portrayed. According to last year’s first-of-its-kind study from the Mackinac Center, the state’s lower-funded public charter schools get 32 percent more bang in student learning for every buck they spend. The advantage is even greater in the struggling city of Detroit, where each dollar spent by a charter school is more than twice as effective at boosting a student’s prospective career earnings.

http://www.educationviews.org/michigan-charter-schools-turn-25/