CMU charter schools panel: 'Time to break children free from monopoly of unions, public schools'

Charter schools save lives and futures, says Detroit News editorial editor Nolan Finley.
"We have to break our children free from the monopoly franchise of the education unions and public school bureaucracy," he said Monday morning in a panel discussion about charter schools at Central Michigan University. The discussion was a part of the dedication of the John Engler Center for Charter Schools at CMU. The university is the largest authorizer of charter schools in Michigan with 56 schools with nearly 30,000 students. After Engler in 1994 signed into law the Charter School Act, CMU became the first university in the nation to authorize charter schools.

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