Public education, school employees need Granholm
Public education—and public school employees—win with Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
Illustration by MEA member
Dennis Preston
Public education—and public school employees—win with Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
That message—clear and to the point—is the reason MEA recommends her re-election in the race for governor on Nov. 7.
As governor, Granholm owns a solid record of support and respect for public education and the employees who spend their careers at our K-12 schools, community colleges and universities, working to assure that our students succeed in school and in life.
Her opponent, political neophyte Dick DeVos, the billionaire Amway heir, has no record of support for public education. In fact, he led the failed 2000 Michigan voucher initiative that would have taken taxpayer money from public schools and funneled it to private and religious schools.
Since the landslide defeat of his voucher campaign, DeVos has dumped at least $7 million into programs nationwide that would expand school choice—vouchers, tuition tax credits and the like—and into supporting candidates who back those causes.
As a candidate for governor, his education platform is sketchy on details, but we do know that he supports the deceptive“65 Percent Solution” and merit pay.
Here’s how the candidates stack up on
education issues:
