K-12 Enrollments Continue Fall: Major New Priority Setting

Will colleges and universities be next (or continuing the falling numbers of past few years) in major declining enrollment?  We should make sure we see numbers that reflect what the Michigan "resident" numbers are when they release their enrollment numbers this Fall.  Are they balancing their budgets with out of state students and their high out of state tuition?  K-12 does not have the ability to do this!  K-12 districts do not have the ability to raise taxes--called tuition--on its students.  Let's watch the in state versus the out of state student numbers this Fall. 

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/education/2015/08/16/michigan-enrollment/31834901/

Do We Need A State Board of Education? Amend the Constitution?

Maybe the issue is also that we should have a debate on whether we still need a Michigan Department of Education? Should we have an elected State Board of Education? Is there constitutional independence helping or hurting Michigan education in the 21st Century. Been awhile since we debated this issue, but since the State Board of Education raised the constitution as an issue, why not talk about this aspect of the constitution also? http://on.freep.com/1bdLkqQ