Dec 16, 2020
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission, tasked with rooting out discrimination in the state, has in effect called for the discrimination against 150,000 charter school students by saying they should be funded less than other public school children. It’s hard to miss the irony.
In a report released earlier this fall, “Education Equity in Michigan,” the commission made some valid recommendations, but it also jumped on the charter-bashing bandwagon.
The most alarming advice the report offers is that the state change its school funding model and cut support for charter school students by 25%. The idea is to bolster the budgets of traditional public schools that have lost students to neighboring charters. Yet charter schools already receive about 20% less funding than their counterparts as they don’t get any state funding for their facilities.
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