Last October, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan vetoed a line item reducing the budget allowed to charter schools while continuing to increase budget for traditional public schools. As Alicia Urbain notes on charterschools.org, this action caused an uproar in the community as charter school parents, staff, and partners came together to write letters, hold press conferences, flood social media, and even "gather outside the governor’s Lansing office to read the names of more than a thousand charter.