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...John Engler...
...from collective bargaining agreements. In California the unions are fighting attempts to expand the state's popular charter schools beyond the current cap of 100. Meanwhile, the Michigan Education Association, having spent a fortune trying to block the state's 1993 charter-school act, is making Republican Governor John Engler's advocacy of that law an issue in his current campaign for re-election...
...such desperate straits, Engler's radical solution became attractive. After the vote last week, Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, declared, "One thing is clear. A more equitable and stable method of financing public schools must be found, and Michigan has clearly taken a bold step in that direction." Officials in Rhode Island, South Carolina, New Hampshire and Vermont all asked for detailed projections of Engler's plan...
Indeed, Michigan voters, who had turned down five previous sales-tax hikes, voted for this one only because Engler had arranged that if it was defeated, the automatic alternative would be a dreaded income-tax increase. If enough voters felt whipsawed by this unappetizing choice, their next chance to express it would be when Engler runs again this November...
Nonetheless, a close aide of Engler's described him as "ecstatic" at his plan's victory, and a referendum-night party at the Sheraton Lansing Hotel < turned into a noisy rally for his re-election. For 20 years something of a Republican hatchet man in the state legislature, he risked a rap for callousness during his first gubernatorial year when he abruptly eliminated the state's nonfamily-welfare program: the following winter, several former recipients froze to death, homeless. Last week's deal, which was supported by Detroit's mayor Dennis Archer, a liberal Democrat, made Engler look more statesmanlike...