Interview with Colin Armstrong on the Fundamental Inequities in Public School Funding

This week we listen to part 3 in our series of interviews investigating the fundamental inequities in public school funding. Our third guest is Colin Armstrong, Superintendent of Muskegon Public Schools.

Colin Armstrong has been in education for 36 years, but in point of fact has only been in Michigan for a year and a half. Prior to Michigan, he was a Superintendent in North Carolina and led a successful legal challenge in that State's Supreme Court against the State of North Carolina pursuing more equitable funding of Public Schools.

When talking about the inequities in Public School Funding in Michigan, Colin speaks with passion, "And what you then see is this terribly insidious plot, and I have used the word plot specifically. This does not just happen and nobody has noticed it. This is happening because those that have the economic and political power to make it happen are working to ensure it stays the way it is."

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Interview with Nick Ceglarek on the Fundamental Inequities of Public School Funding

This week we listen to part 2 in our series of interviews investigating the fundamental inequities in public school funding. Our second guest is Nick Ceglarek, Superintendent of Fruitport Community Schools.

Nick gives us the history behind public school funding prior to Proposal A as well as after. Specifically he demonstrates the effect that tax base has on funding for urban and rural school districts.

This second interview in the series is not to be missed.

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Interview with Steve Cousins on the Fundamental Inequities of Public School Funding

This week we start the new year with a series of interviews investigating the fundamental inequities in public school funding. Our first guest is Steve Cousins, Superintendent of Reeths-Puffer Schools

Steve advises "Reeths-Puffer has a 35 and a half million dollar budget, if we were funded the same way as the top funded district in the state, we would have 23 million dollars more to spend on education."

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