As with nearly every aspect of the Detroit government that has been tasked to serve the people, it has been increasing clear the dysfunction and absolute disconnect from reality on the part of the politicians that run this city rules the day. But this is nothing new in that for decades Detroit has been known for it's corruptive politics and politicians can be seen as out right criminals, also known as members of he progressive socialist liberal democrat party, or the "collective".
School failures to deliver as promised to taxpayers, parents, and the demands of unions for more money to deliver even less product is business as usual. Failure piled upon failure.
It's only now that Detroit has become the poster child for dysfunction and corruption in city politics, which has brought it to it's collective knees, forcing it into receivership from financial collapse, and with the light of reality that has begun to shine on Detroit for it's systemic failures, we begin to see and understand the true depth of failure that is the progressive democrat agenda and mentality.
But it's not just Detroit, there are many other major cities around the country that have fallen to the same dysfunction, corruption and failure are all ruled, , not governed coincidently, by democrats. Who knew?
Detroit Public School Teacher ‘Sick Out‘ Underway While Just 8% of Students Can Read Proficiently
Lindsey Burke / @lindseymburke
Nearly all schools in Detroit were closed Wednesday due to a massive teacher “sick out,” preventing students from attending class.
Teachers have complained about over-crowded classrooms, poor school conditions, and dissatisfaction with the idea of charter school growth in Michigan. The teachers’ sick-out includes a planned march, which will conclude near a venue being visited by President Barack Obama Wednesday. Meanwhile, 46,000 kids are unable to attend school in Detroit. Among those 46,000, it’s likely that less than 4,000 of them can read proficiently.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, just 8 percent of Detroit eighth-graders can read proficiently. Eight percent. And just seven in 10 students graduate. But lack of progress is due not to a lack of resources in Detroit public schools, which spend roughly $16,000 per pupil per year. According to the Mackinac Center and a separate analysis by Randan Steinhauser:
– About 75 percent of the annual District budget goes toward paying employees covered by its current collective bargaining agreement for teachers.
– Out of a new $7,450-per-pupil grant the Detroit school district will receive this year, $4,400 will be spent on debt servicing and benefits for teachers who have retired.
– The average Detroit Public Schools (DPS) superintendent makes between $121,091 and $178,871 a year.
– The superintendent can select up to two “professional associations” (unions) to be a member of each year, and the district (taxpayers) will reimburse his membership dues.
– DPS has a debt of over $3.5 billion, which includes unfunded pension liabilities.
Funneling money into a mismanaged school system has not created an environment conducive to improving academic achievement in Detroit.
Serious reforms to the district are necessary. Policymakers in Michigan would do well to enable every Detroit child—and every child in the state—to exercise school choice through the use of education savings accounts (ESAs), accounts that enable families to harness the funds that would have been spent on their children in their assigned pubic school to craft a customized education plan. They can begin by considering how to tackle the barriers to school choice that currently exist in the state.
School failures to deliver as promised to taxpayers, parents, and the demands of unions for more money to deliver even less product is business as usual. Failure piled upon failure.
It's only now that Detroit has become the poster child for dysfunction and corruption in city politics, which has brought it to it's collective knees, forcing it into receivership from financial collapse, and with the light of reality that has begun to shine on Detroit for it's systemic failures, we begin to see and understand the true depth of failure that is the progressive democrat agenda and mentality.
But it's not just Detroit, there are many other major cities around the country that have fallen to the same dysfunction, corruption and failure are all ruled, , not governed coincidently, by democrats. Who knew?
Detroit Public School Teacher ‘Sick Out‘ Underway While Just 8% of Students Can Read Proficiently
Lindsey Burke / @lindseymburke
Nearly all schools in Detroit were closed Wednesday due to a massive teacher “sick out,” preventing students from attending class.
Teachers have complained about over-crowded classrooms, poor school conditions, and dissatisfaction with the idea of charter school growth in Michigan. The teachers’ sick-out includes a planned march, which will conclude near a venue being visited by President Barack Obama Wednesday. Meanwhile, 46,000 kids are unable to attend school in Detroit. Among those 46,000, it’s likely that less than 4,000 of them can read proficiently.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, just 8 percent of Detroit eighth-graders can read proficiently. Eight percent. And just seven in 10 students graduate. But lack of progress is due not to a lack of resources in Detroit public schools, which spend roughly $16,000 per pupil per year. According to the Mackinac Center and a separate analysis by Randan Steinhauser:
– About 75 percent of the annual District budget goes toward paying employees covered by its current collective bargaining agreement for teachers.
– Out of a new $7,450-per-pupil grant the Detroit school district will receive this year, $4,400 will be spent on debt servicing and benefits for teachers who have retired.
– The average Detroit Public Schools (DPS) superintendent makes between $121,091 and $178,871 a year.
– The superintendent can select up to two “professional associations” (unions) to be a member of each year, and the district (taxpayers) will reimburse his membership dues.
– DPS has a debt of over $3.5 billion, which includes unfunded pension liabilities.
Funneling money into a mismanaged school system has not created an environment conducive to improving academic achievement in Detroit.
Serious reforms to the district are necessary. Policymakers in Michigan would do well to enable every Detroit child—and every child in the state—to exercise school choice through the use of education savings accounts (ESAs), accounts that enable families to harness the funds that would have been spent on their children in their assigned pubic school to craft a customized education plan. They can begin by considering how to tackle the barriers to school choice that currently exist in the state.
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