Op/Ed in Detroit News

A revised version of my Mackinac Center op/ed on Detroit public schools was published today in the Detroit Free Press.

You can check it out here.

Note that the editorial page editor deleted a paragraph without consulting me--one that gave some additional figures on Detroit public school enrollment and employment from the state's point of view. I'm sure he meant well, but 'taint proper form, if you ask me.

It doesn't alter the basic message of the piece, but should anyone be interested in the missing numbers, drop me a message at "Andrew" @ this website (thegantelope.com).

So far, the response to the piece has been favorable, but I don't doubt that there are a few folks in the District's administration who weren't happy to see the op/ed page today. To those administrators I would just like to point out that our ultimate goal is the same: to ensure that all kids have access to good schools. Unfortunately, the evidence undeniably points to the fact that we will never achieve that goal within the confines of the existing state education monopoly.

After trying to make the best of a bad system for more than a century, it's time that we actually introduce a better system. Our kids, all kids, deserve that.