Dexter School Board: Overhaul of Michigan's School Aid Act Should Not be Rushed
House Bills 6004 and 5923 call for the creation of new schools and dissolving school district borders.
Dexter Community Schools is the latest educational institution to join the fight against a package of education reform legislation making its way swiftly through the committee process in the Michigan House of Representatives and Senate. The Dexter Board of Education unanimously approved the Washtenaw Alliance of Education's denouncement of House Bill 6004 and House Bill 5923 at its meeting on Nov. 19. If passed during Congress' lame duck session, the bills would overhaul the Michigan School Aid Act. "I think we all agree that the system certainly needs to be improved; however, doing that in lame duck session without the proper input from all stakeholders, including the public, is wrong," board president Larry Cobler said. The legislation …
