Add onMouseOver color for IE5.5. SJF 2001.02.28 Change hide to no parameter. May Not turn on the first menu, nor turn off the last menu. No, it wasn't free market economist Milton Friedman or former president Ronald Reagan. It was Governor John Engler, kicking off the recent and historic school reform debate in a speech to a Joint Session of the Michigan Legislature on October 5, 1993.
Politicians often live and die by their rhetoric.
The idea is to grant teachers and other educational entrepreneurs greater freedom to create and operate new public schools in exchange for more direct accountability to public authorities and taxpayers. Charter schools represent a well-intentioned, albeit limited, effort to introduce market forces into public education. Implemented properly, they can begin to erode the monopoly structure of public education and allow competition to stimulate quality improvements. In states such as Minnesota, California and Colorado, charter school legislation is causing school boards and superintendents to become more responsive to the concerns of parents and teachers, simply because those parents and teachers now have alternatives. For the first time anywhere in the United States, public authorities other than local school districts and state boards of education can authorize the creation of new, public schools.