What's this about then?

Privatizing teaching.  Who thinks this is a good idea?  Why? 

The Michigan Republican party, that's who.  As to why, I couldn't tell you.  It didn't work with maintenance staff, and you don't even have to have a degree to be a maintenance worker.  It didn't save money, it didn't improve efficiency.  Why, it's almost as if there's something here that isn't best served by race-to-the-bottom, get-more-while-paying-less mentality. 

It's going to be incredibly ironic (not to mention frustrating) if the only way we can have what we think of as a public school is to start a charter school.