Michigan superintendent has plan to save state's schools from Gov. Snyder's ax: Make them prisons

Meteor Blades:

Financially pinched states across the nation are making draconian cuts in spending for social services and public education. But there's one area that gets gentler treatment under Republican governors and legislators: prisons. In fact, while Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and the GOP-controlled legislature were whacking $300 per student from the state's K-12 school budget, he was simultaneously moving some of the "savings" over to corrections and prisons.

That prompted Nathan Bootz,
superintendent
of public schools in the small town of Ithaca in central Michigan, to pen a letter to the local Gratiot County Herald suggesting a modest proposal:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 30, 2011 1:03 AM
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