Political Quotes

“I think that is why, for a lot of our public school folks, this is a very exciting proposal, because they only get about 7 percent of their money from Washington to begin with. A lot of that money comes with the strings attached and very little flexibility, but when they see this tax credit proposal, they see it as another avenue to get money to come into their schools, because they are confident that they have built the relationship with their constituents, with the corporations back in their districts, with the parents and the taxpayers in their district, that they have got confidence in their local schools, and with this incentive we are providing through a tax credit, they believe they can go into their community and raise the funds necessary to do some of the special things that they would like to do for their schools. In a lot of places today, the State of Michigan, it is very difficult for a school district to raise any extra money for operating expenses. I guess it is next to impossible for them to raise operating money for their schools. It all comes on a formula basis out of our State capital. So what they are saying is this is now a new revenue source for us. They do see it is more money coming into their schools, because they have got a high degree of confidence that the programs and the efforts that they wanted to put in place will be supported by the people in their local districts.”