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Detroit teachers fight layoffs

Published Jun 2, 2005 9:08 PM

On May 23, teachers, other school workers, parents and students surrounded the Fisher Building and picketed the Detroit School Board offices. The Detroit Federation of Teachers and other school unions called the action to protest the layoffs of thousands of teachers.

Last November Detroit voters demanded the right to elect the Detroit School Board, defeating a five-year-long state takeover that turned a budget surplus and a $1.5 billion construction bond issue into a deficit.

Profiteering at taxpayers’ expense through privatizing school maintenance and charter schools has not improved education for Detroit children. Detroit’s official graduation rate is only 44.5 percent.

—Story and photo by Cheryl LaBash