Robotics and STEM

I had the opportunity to speak on Education Nation about STEM, Technology, STEAM, and Innovation

Education shakeup!

This looks  interesting, I wonder how true it is? Is he thinking that removing the profit motive from education may help level the playing field?

Schauer Education Plan Looks To Shut Down Successful Charter Public Schools

By TOM GANTERT | April 23, 2014 |  Follow Tom Gantert on Twitter

Mark Schauer

A 2013 study by Stanford University found that Detroit students in charter public schools were performing far beyond those in the Detroit Public Schools district. The study is the most comprehensive yet done, individually tracking students and holding for race, poverty level, English language learner, special education status and more.

Although many considered the study a success for charter public schools, gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer apparently has a different view on school choice in Michigan. He’s dedicated a lot of his “education plan” if he were to be governor to dismantling charter public schools in the state.

Schauer’s plan wants to stop the “unrestricted expansion of poor quality charters and cyber-only schools” and “provide for strict quality control over new charter and cyber schools.” Schauer also wants to remove “the profit motive” from charter schools. Schauer’s campaign didn’t respond to an email questioning just how that would be done.

All charter public schools in Michigan are authorized by either a public university, a community college or a conventional school district, but they can be run by management companies. If the state was to restrict "for profit" management companies from being involved in schools, many schools rated very highly would be shut down.

Read more at:

www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/20013