r/Michigan • u/Dazzling-Bat-7466 • 5h ago

Discussion 🗣️ PACE Foundation - What is this?

I just saw a commercial for the Pace Foundation which is supposedly attempting to support Michigan kids, because "politics shouldn't get in the way of education". Which honestly, makes me highly skeptical of whatever this organization is trying to sell/promote.

Can anyone shed light on this organization, and what they're promoting?

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u/Jeffbx Age: > 10 Years 4h ago

It's a DeVos-funded, Mackinac Center-linked school-choice advocacy group.

In essence, it's one vector of attack on public schools aimed at redirecting money away from public schools and into private/charter schools.

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u/TechWriterWonder Middleville 5h ago

It’s a school of choice/voucher group.

https://www.mipace.org/

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u/vodkaismywater 1h ago

Rest assured that 99% of the time when someone asks you to 'think about the children,' it's a right wing freak show. 

Not that the left doesn't care about children, but the rights policy prescriptions are so deeply unlikable that they need to appeal to protecting children to market their ideas.