Interview with Daniel Quisenberry of MAPSA and the Role Public School Charter Academies can play in solving the Dropout Crisis.

This week we talk with Daniel Quisenberry, President of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies. Dan shares with us the mission and vision for MAPSA and the role that Public School Charter Academies can play in helping solve Michigan's Dropout Crisis.

"Big doesn't work any more for students -- I talked to one of our school Principals, who said, 'Dan, my most important job is to know when a student changes their hairstyle.' You have to know a kid to know some of that and then you say, 'What's going on in your life?' And that matters to teenagers and then you can make sure you are tying up the academics with it as well, but those are the components you were hearing the other night and yeah, for kids that are experienced a little rebellion in their life, you want a school that's willing to tackle that."

We hope you enjoy this show as we continue to seek ways to solve the 'silent epidemic' of children who are dropping out of school.

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Interview with Doug Pratt of the MEA on the Public Hearings "Dropouts: One is Too Many"

This week we talk with Doug Pratt, Director of Communications for the Michigan Education Association (MEA) after the first of 10 public hearings planned in communities across Michigan focused on finding ways to fix what is described as a "Dropout Crisis" in our State.

Doug shares the vision for the hearings: "We have nine hearings remaining across the state. Our goal is to bring in input from that broader community that is impacted by the dropout crisis. We need to hear from the business community. We need to hear from law enforcement. We need to hear from parents. We need to hear from educators, and most of all, we need to hear from young people, from our students; who either have dropped out and who have come back, or who have resisted the urge to drop out and have stayed in school, or frankly others who have dropped out and have not come back, and talking about their experiences. We need to get the full picture here in order to solve this problem."

We hope you enjoy the interview and will participate in the broader discussion.

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