The answer is local control: parents and teachers know what is best.
For years, Tom McMillin has defended the rights of parents and local school boards to shape education policy for the benefit of their children and communities.
As a member of the State Board of Education since 2017, Tom McMillin has consistently stood for and voted to uphold the values of local control, parental choice and students' rights.
Before serving on the Michigan Board of Education, Tom McMillin served as Chairman of the House Education Committee as a representative in the state legislature. He led successful efforts to stop the implementation of national student assessment schemes, and to give parents more freedom and choice in their children's education. He also chaired the House Oversight Committee and Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.
Tom has served as an Oakland County Commissioner, Mayor of Auburn Hills and Auburn Hills City Councilman for 9 years. He was also President of the Board of Prevail Academy charter school in Mt. Clemens from its inception in 2004 until leaving to serve in the legislature in 2009.
Tom recognizes that students are ill served by layer upon layer of bureaucracy dictating from above how every school should teach every child, irrespective of children's diverse talents, interests and needs. Schools should serve the interests of children and parents. A school's allegiance needs to be to the parents in the community, not to the Feds...and not to the state.
Additionally, Tom is tired of public schools fighting parents and working against them. He wants to return control back to parents and the teachers in classrooms.
Tom McMillin continues to represent us on the State Board of Education to fight against the centralization of education. He fights to move control away from Washington and Lansing and return it to parents and our local school boards.
Tom understands that freedom and free enterprise are driving forces of success and prosperity, and the key to making great schools is to make them directly accountable to the families they serve.
For years, Tom McMillin has defended the rights of parents and local school boards to shape education policy for the benefit of their children and communities.
As a member of the State Board of Education since 2017, Tom McMillin has consistently stood for and voted to uphold the values of local control, parental choice and students' rights.
Before serving on the Michigan Board of Education, Tom McMillin served as Chairman of the House Education Committee as a representative in the state legislature. He led successful efforts to stop the implementation of national student assessment schemes, and to give parents more freedom and choice in their children's education. He also chaired the House Oversight Committee and Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.
Tom has served as an Oakland County Commissioner, Mayor of Auburn Hills and Auburn Hills City Councilman for 9 years. He was also President of the Board of Prevail Academy charter school in Mt. Clemens from its inception in 2004 until leaving to serve in the legislature in 2009.
Tom recognizes that students are ill served by layer upon layer of bureaucracy dictating from above how every school should teach every child, irrespective of children's diverse talents, interests and needs. Schools should serve the interests of children and parents. A school's allegiance needs to be to the parents in the community, not to the Feds...and not to the state.
Additionally, Tom is tired of public schools fighting parents and working against them. He wants to return control back to parents and the teachers in classrooms.
Tom McMillin continues to represent us on the State Board of Education to fight against the centralization of education. He fights to move control away from Washington and Lansing and return it to parents and our local school boards.
Tom understands that freedom and free enterprise are driving forces of success and prosperity, and the key to making great schools is to make them directly accountable to the families they serve.