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Originally Posted by Bladewire
In Michigan Devos showed her voucher system failed. Or you can look at it as she fails at running a voucher system.
Either way Devos failed and they chose her to take that failed system nationwide . Not to mention she was a sanctimonious bitch, with a superiority complex, when going through confirmation. She reminded me of the evil witch in Harry Potter.
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I think you might have misread that. It was never tried in Michigan from what I'm reading. The bill to allow vouchers failed, not the voucher system itself.
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/...troy_publ.html
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The roadblock? Michigan's constitution, which states "No public monies or property shall be appropriated or paid or any public credit utilized... to aid or maintain any private, denominational or other nonpublic, pre-elementary, elementary, or secondary school."
The DeVos family pushed a constitutional change to allow for vouchers in 2000. It failed. But now Michigan educators are worrying Betsy DeVos will take up the issue again in her new position.
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And from another article:
Michigan is missing out on true school choice
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The state constitution, amended in 1970 to block private school funding and upheld by voters in 2000, specifically says vouchers and tax credits for nonpublic schools are out of the question. But some education reform advocates in Michigan are considering a push for the latest school choice innovation: education savings accounts.
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