When members of a PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD are endorsed by an organization called “NE MI League of Conservative Education”, and that organization spells out their “key ideals” on their website as:

“1. Supporting school of choice vouchers. 2. Support public charter schools. 3. Support facilitation of home schooling.”, then it should be abundantly clear that those board members will be doing everything they can to DISMANTLE public education, the local public school system and move tax payer dollars into the hands of private entities.

Fun fact! Did you know that more than 80% of Michigan’s 295+ public charter schools (Public School Academies) are managed by private, for-profit Educational Management Organizations (EMOs), the highest concentration in the U.S?

As an AHS graduate who attended APS K-12, I feel so badly for these current students that are being used as pawns for three of the Board Members’ personal political agendas.

The APS Board of Education should be working FOR the local students and the local community, NOT for personal political agendas. Taxpayer dollars should go towards public services, not to line the pockets of private companies and religious organizations.

Angela Lindsay

(2004 Graduate AHS and former K-12 APS Student)

Iron Mountain, Michigan