On Mackinac Island this month, Michigan’s Republican leaders will gather for their biennial conference to debate politics, strategy and power. It comes at a time when Washington D.C. politics have filled the air, dividing, distracting and drowning out many of the issues that matter most here at home.

But Mackinac offers fresh air, and with it, an opportunity. Our leaders have a chance to shift the conversation from the politics of personality to the policies that shape our children’s future in the state. While so much oxygen and ink have been given to the current state of national politics, the real story we need to write together is about education.

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