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Bozita

(26,955 posts)
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 02:44 AM Jul 2012

Emergency managers shop schools to charter operators; teachers fear future [View all]

Source: AP

July 8, 2012 at 1:00 am
Emergency managers shop schools to charter operators; teachers fear future
By Corey Williams
Associated Press

Detroit — Thousands of laid-off Michigan public school teachers don't know if they will have jobs waiting for them when classes resume this fall in their state-run districts.

Detroit is expected to slice 800 teachers from its ranks by recalling only 3,300 of 4,100 teachers who received layoff notices earlier this year. Meanwhile, their counterparts in Muskegon Heights and Highland Park must wait until companies are selected to run them as charter systems.

Who and how many get hired is up to the charter operators.

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State-appointed emergency managers have shopped Muskegon Heights schools in West Michigan and the Highland Park district near Detroit to interested charter operators as part of plans to pull the educational systems from near-fiscal ruin.



From The Detroit News:

Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120708/SCHOOLS/207080310#ixzz200iUtcAe



MoveOn.org produced this poster last year. It fits better today than it did before.



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Smells like fascism. OnyxCollie Jul 2012 #1
"race to the top" - busting the teachers' unions any way possible nt msongs Jul 2012 #2
If you look at the big picture, OnyxCollie Jul 2012 #5
Notice the pay the "emergency managers" get???? newthinking Jul 2012 #3
it's like that all over. chicago has added a full PR department, highly paid, while pleading HiPointDem Jul 2012 #6
I teach in public schools including a charter and a charter-public partnership wordpix Jul 2012 #16
Wow, $11K per month and $250K per year? That's crazy. IndyJones Jul 2012 #20
privatization of the commons. just like in the ussr when the oligarchs got public property for a HiPointDem Jul 2012 #4
Any word from our president or party on this? Jakes Progress Jul 2012 #7
Du rec. Nt xchrom Jul 2012 #8
Go read about Operation Northwoods: blkmusclmachine Jul 2012 #9
Shock Doctrine, ya'll: blkmusclmachine Jul 2012 #10
Its dead. The american public education experience is dead. MichiganVote Jul 2012 #11
bush tried to push through reagan's education plan Jakes Progress Jul 2012 #14
Truth be told Jake, there is requiem to be sung 4 the education of US kids MichiganVote Jul 2012 #18
The last time this topic came up in a thread there were rightwing fuckers up and down it defending Occulus Jul 2012 #12
It's so sensible. Jakes Progress Jul 2012 #15
words escape me sweetapogee Jul 2012 #13
Death to dictators. StateApparatus Jul 2012 #17
Um, great sign by moveon.org. But as I recall, the average American didn't do any of those things, IndyJones Jul 2012 #19
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