Superintendents' Letter About Charter Schools 'Incredibly Misleading'
12 superintendents sign statement with 'completely inaccurate' claim
By TOM GANTERT | Nov. 29, 2011 
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A letter-to-the-editor signed by 12 Michigan superintendents attacking Senate bills that support expanding charter and cyber schools contained statements that were “incredibly misleading,” according to Michael Van Beek, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
The letter appeared in the Paw Paw Courier Leader and criticized Senate Bills 618-624.
One paragraph in the letter claimed Senate Bill 621 would allow students who do not attend public school to go to public schools, including charter public schools outside