Michigan School Superintendents and School Boards: JUST TURN IN YOUR KEYS.

Superintendents, just go to Any Dillon's office and turn in the keys to your schools: The ramifications of the "Emergency Finance Manager" buried in the H.B. 4215 and radical provisions coupled with Snyder's severe revenue cuts to education, the coming outcomes mean dozens of school districts will be declared "at risk" and taken over by state government, even liquidated, can be avoided: Just turn in the keys.

The correct move for a public school superintendent (under these circumstances for a school district like Cheboygan, (which will get slammed with over a million dollar shortfall when the proposed Snyder cuts of $470 hit) has a simple answer.

Cheboygan may be among the first districts to go into legislative defined and mandated default; to then be taken over and run by the Emergency Finance Manager or state assigned "Firm" (which we know is Plunkett & Cooney: with expensive attorneys in the $400 per hr. range.)

The most sensible, most efficient, fair and simple response for the district: Just turn in the keys to Dillon.

We'll call it: Keys for Crisis, in the mode of the "Keys for Cash" program associated with bank housing foreclosures.

As the State's GOP/Teapartisan majorities fast track and blitz the legislative process; inflicting this "government takeover of local schools" using serious and unprecedented dictatorial powers; we who have asked the "newbees" realize that they, as with many more experienced legislators, have no clear understanding of the "Emergency Finance Manager's Extreme Powers and the severe impacts, direct and indirect consequences, for taxpayers and school children.

These impacts will be overwhelming. Ensuing legal battles will tie the Governor and the Legislature in court for years to come. When quizzed on details, Teapublicans are confused and clueless. Perhaps this is exactly why there is the Snyder Blitz in the first place; TAKE FULL AND SUDDEN ADVANTAGE; the rush to law appears to be an attempt to reach LONG SOUGHT goal by bamboozling both the public and the greenpea Legislature using the "bum's rush."

Superintendents, the Key to ENDING YOUR CRISIS will be very simple: Just go to Dillion's Office and turn in the keys to your district; put the entire stupefying Snyder-induced financial crisis right back where it started.

Gov. Snyder, you wanted to revenue-strangle local school funding, so now our schools are yours to own. Here are the Keys!


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