MIRS Monday, Jan. 14, 2013

Michigan charter school students are outperforming their public school counterparts, according to a new Stanford University study that panned charter schools in 2009. Cindy Schumacher, executive director, of Central Michigan University's Center for Charter Schools talks about the significance of the new report. Also what scares new House Appropriations Committee Chair Joe Haveman (R-Holland) going into the crafting of the Fiscal Year 2014 budget (11:44)? The new chair talks about his priorities in '13 and why his Approps meetings may be more "boring" that what we're all used to.