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A Michigan House committee has begun the process of vetting a plan to get Detroit Public Schools out of debt, which includes academic reforms and strips away some collective bargaining rights of teachers.
The controversial proposal also wouldn’t have a fully elected school board in place in Detroit for eight years.
State Representative Al Pscholka, R-Stevensville, chairman of the committee debating the House Republican backed plan, says he isn’t going to rush the process.
Pscholka says there will be plenty of hearings, however, he would like to move the bills making up the plan out of the House Appropriations Committee by the end of March. DPS says it will run out of money in April.
The Michigan Senate is also working on its own plan.
Both the House plan and Senate plan call for DPS to be split into two districts, with one handling the day-to-day educating of students while the other would pay down the debt. And both plans would cost the state $715 million.
