Michigan lawmakers advance $500 million package for Detroit schools

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Thu May 5, 2016 6:40am EDT

Michigan lawmakers advance $500 million package for Detroit schools

BY BRENDAN O'BRIEN

The Michigan House of Representatives approved on Thursday a $500 million spending package for Detroit schools, which could run out of money to pay employees at the end of June.

The legislation, which still needs approvals from the state Senate and Governor Rick Snyder, was passed early Thursday morning after hundreds of Detroit teachers called in sick over paycheck concerns, a move that closed nearly all of the district's 97 schools on Monday and Tuesday.

Detroit school teachers returned to their classrooms on Wednesday following the "sick-out" after receiving assurances from officials that they will be paid for their work.

The Detroit public school system, or DPS, with nearly 46,000 students, has been under state control since 2009 because of a financial emergency.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-detroit-education-idUSKCN0XW0X0

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1. After 15 hours, passed at 4:30 AM! All Dems voted NO. 6 bills. No Dem changes were approved.

Teachers sickout ended. Schools working on Wednesday. This passed early early Thursday AM in wee hours.

Dems called it "institutional racism."

http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/04/lots-lansing-lobbying-but-no-deal-yet-fixing-detroit-schools/83950838/
Freep is the supposed liberal newspaper of the two JOINTLY-OWNED (what a joke) liberal and conservative newspapers in Detroit.

The too rich for their own good DeVos (Amway) family pushes for more charter schools. They are happiest purposely to under-fund Detroit schools making Detroit constantly come back and ask for more in the news. That way, they can entrench their ability to make more money off of the school funding tax structure.

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2. The DeVos family wants to kill public ed for good.

From 2011 but still relevant:

http://www.alternet.org/story/150868/the_devos_family%3A_meet_the_super-wealthy_right-wingers_working_with_the_religious_right_to_kill_public_education