In three weeks, we head for the polls. The school election in Holland is enough to give every city voter a toothache, but especially we senior citizens.
If you’re at all like me, you simply can’t comprehend what $73,000,000 feels like, looks like, or buys. If you’re like me, you also recall supporting millages a couple of decades back for major expansion of facilities, only to watch enrollment decline and schools sold off or mothballed.
You may question the wisdom of past choices, ranging from the tacky Ding Dong School entrance slapped onto the old Apple Avenue School to the California campus style chosen for our high school in Michigan‘s snowbelt. You may also be weary of a trait endemic to the public sector of building facilities hailed as state-of-the art, only to find 40 or 50 years later that they are functionally obsolete and cheaper to demolish and replace than to alter or expand.
You probably mourn also the disappearance of neighborhood schools that served our city and nation for generations. And you might look
Should We Voucherize Title I?
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Spoiler alert: no, we should not.
However, not everyone agrees, as witnessed by this "policy brief" (aka
"blog post with footnotes and letterhead") from Ra...
9 hours ago
