State Senator Aric Nesbitt will host a roundtable discussion on the future of education in Michigan this week.
The event in Oakland County Thursday will include several state lawmakers along with representatives of the Michigan Board of Education, Americans for Prosperity, and Northville Public Schools, among others.
Nesbitt tells us with Michigan students now performing near the bottom of students nationwide, it’s time for some change. He says get DEI out of schools and replace it with the ABCs.
“Schools should focus on teaching the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic, and not pushing indoctrination or radical ideologies,” Nesbitt said. “We’ve had a bunch of legislation that’s introduced. We need to get it done to make sure that it’s time to empower parents through school choice.”
Nesbitt says Governor Gretchen Whitmer could take steps to give Michigan parents more school choice at any time. As he campaigns for governor, Nesbitt tells us he’s learned many parents are dissatisfied.
“We need to make sure that every parent is given a choice to decide where they send their schools. We need to get vocational education back into our schools, get shop back into our schools.”
Nesbitt says girls’ sports should be protected, there should be more accountability in the classroom, and children should be able to read by the third grade. He’s calling for the passage of legislation introduced by Republicans in Lansing to reform education in the state.
