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"The education system in Michigan schools needs to change, according to the president of the Michigan Board of Education."

"Mr. Austin said that despite a recent effort of for-profit education programs to fight for more choices, residents want public education systems to succeed.

“'The free-market school creation could hurt our local schools,' he said. 'People want their local public schools to succeed. We have to keep changing and transforming education so that it creates an exciting applied learning environment for all people.'"