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Commentary: Craft a sensible education policy that works | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Commentary: Craft a sensible education policy that works | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Commentary: Craft a sensible education policy that works

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Amber Arellano
Amber Arellano

This week Gov. Rick Snyder is expected to lay out his education agenda in a major speech to policymakers and Michigan parents and students. As a former teacher and head of the Education Trust-Midwest, a statewide organization dedicated to improving Michigan's schools, I fervently hope that Snyder will choose the path of smart education reform that will truly benefit children -- and not be sucked into the poisonous, combative politics that are dividing Americans in other states.

While governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere have attacked teachers' collective-bargaining rights and marginalized the societal importance of teachers -- spurring understandable backlashes --