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There seems to be little support for Governor Granholm’s education initiative, MI’s 21st Century Schools. Click here for a summary of this initiative as first proposed. The way it’s developed, for many, there is not a lot to like.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan said he would welcome the additional authority Governor Jennifer Granholm had proposed to allow him to close failing schools, but warned it would have to be carefully used.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act provides for schools that do not meet adequate yearly progress goals for eight years to be potentially shut down. But there are not provisions in state law that would allow that option for this state.

"They just keep not making AYP," Mr. Flanagan said.