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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
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