Republican lawmakers upset Detroit's worst schools temporarily exempted from closure

Republican lawmakers upset Detroit's worst schools temporarily exempted from closure | MLive.com:
"Republican leaders in the Michigan Legislature are disappointed Gov. Rick Snyder's office is interpreting the $617 million Detroit schools rescue package as preventing the state from shuttering any of the district's lowest performing schools until 2019.
House Speaker Kevin Cotter and Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof say prohibiting school closures is not in the spirit of the accountability measures built into the law.
"As a simple matter of common sense, it cannot be said with a straight face that the Legislature intended for the worst-of-the-worst schools in Detroit to remain open," Cotter, R-Mt. Pleasant, said in a statement.
"This mistaken interpretation would also require failing charter public schools to be closed while failing traditional public schools are allowed to persist and drag down class after class of Detroit students, which is an absurd conclusion."
The discussion on the fate of Detroit's struggling schools came on the same day the state School Reform Office released the 2015 list of the worst performing schools in the state.
Forty-seven of the 124 schools on the list are Detroit public schools..."