The Michigan I love - Good bye

October 30, 2009

Today the Governor finished the budget process. And, here’s what is now certain. The Promise scholarship that principals supported so strongly is gone. Period. As a principal and parent you know how important this was, to so many. I hate to see it go.

Quick fixes to soften the cuts in school funding for 09-10? Not going to happen. The pain of the Michigan downsize has arrived for us all in the education community. We are left with doing nothing but cut, or, do what we do much more cost effective.

In the last nine years, Michigan has gone from one of the most prosperous states in the USA, to one of the poorest. Period.

So, we have to adjust. Cut costs; adjust revenue, live within our means. Ouch. The way back to prosperity is brainpower – they say. So the ball is handed off to educators.

We can wring our hands on the way to poverty, or we can step up and work to bring us back into prosperity. So far what I’ve seen of being poor, I don’t like.

SOSMichigan.com. Go there. Do something!