Bottomless Decline
Detroit Public Schools was a failing operation for years, with schools closing, students getting low test scores, and the system running a budget deficit. From 2009 to 2016, the state of Michigan sent emergency managers to run it. Then the state bailed it out and created a whole new school district in Detroit. End of story? Not quite: the old district still owes money, and in August 2017, it failed to get paperwork for state help in paying it submitted by the deadline, so it won’t get the $8.5 million it would have. “With all fairness,” said school board member LaMar Lemmons, “there was confusion, and the person who was supposed to do it thought someone else was.” (AC/Detroit News) ...The old district still has one lesson left to teach.Original Publication Date: 07 January 2018
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
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