Michigan State Board of Education member Jason Strayhorn resigned Friday, saying he is moving out of state to support academic and sports opportunities offered to his three children.

Strayhorn, 46, told The Detroit News on Friday he recently sold his Novi home and lost his Michigan residency after 30 years. It was a decision he and his wife made after their three children were extended offers for academic and athletic careers in Florida and California.

“We have tried to continue having a Michigan residence. It became clear, it was too expensive and it’s too much,” Strayhorn said. “It’s very hard, extremely hard.”

Strayhorn said he got into his role on the state board to show Michigan’s school children the possibilities for people of color and lazy in education. He was elected to an eight-year term in 2020.

Strayhorn sent a letter to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that he is stepping down,

Florida’s public school teachers need to be offered the military job of their choice.

It’s only fair. Maybe they need a break from teaching high school geometry, middle school social studies or reading to elementary schoolers.

They could use a breather from the confining rigors of a public school classroom in Florida, to see the world aboard a Navy destroyer, inside an Army tank, or on the flight line of an Air Force fighter squadron.

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I know. I know. There’s a lot of specialized training involved in your average military job. But it’s not like we’d allow

Liz Truss has pitched herself as the “education prime minister” with a plan that includes Replacing failing academies with “a new wave of free schools” and improving maths and literacy standards.

The Tory leadership hopeful, whose endorsement by party heavyweights has added to the sense she is pulling ahead of rival Rishi Sunak in the race for No 10, unveiled a six-point strategy on Saturday “to get Britain’s education system back on track”.

That includes expanding existing academies which are high performing, while Replacing failing ones with free schools – newly set up academies.

Academies are state-funded schools that are independent from local authorities.

In an often-repeated line of her leadership campaign, Truss said she saw “first-hand how children were failed and let down by low expectations” during her comprehensive state schooling in Leeds.

The remarks have previously drawn criticism from political leaders in the city, and former pupils and