Teachers are unhappy that the debt-ridden district has allowed conditions inside their classrooms to deteriorate.
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On Wednesday, DPS filed an emergency motion against almost two dozen teachers – hoping to legally stop the sickouts that have forced dozens of schools to close.
Almost all schools across the American city of Detroit were closed yesterday, after teachers went off sick en masse to protest against underfunding and crumbling infrastructure.
All but nine of the district’s 97 schools were closed, leaving 44,790 students out of class, district spokeswoman Michelle Zdrodowski said.
A group of over a hundred teachers, joined by parents and children, protested Monday Jan. 11, in Detroit.
Teachers are “frustrated” with Detroit’s public school system, Mitchell said, adding that due to budget constraints, teachers’ paychecks have been cut by up to 10 percent and the cost of their health care packages has risen.
Teacher organizations began tweeting some of the conditions their teachers encountered in Detroit schools. “Detroit students and teachers deserve better”. But he’s just really rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waded into the city’s public school sickout debate early Thursday, questioning the conditions inside school buildings. Bureaucrats are destined to fail, no matter how hard they try.
The tour gives Obama the chance to highlight the industry’s remarkable turnaround over the past seven years, and to remind the public that his administration came to the industry’s rescue at a time when most Americans opposed any further financial assistance for Chrysler and General Motors.
“Let’s solve the problem and help the kids”, he said.
“As the city celebrates this “ultra-luxury” automobile event”, the teachers union said, “Detroit’s public schools are in a state of crisis”. The schools are likely to run out of cash by April, the deputy superintendent for finance told the Detroit News, as the debt payments it owes are set to soar next month.
WXYZ Wednesday’s walkout was the largest yet as teachers draw attention to conditions like this ceiling shown in a local TV report.
Duggan said he saw a dead mouse, freezing classrooms where students were wearing coats, and severely damaged rooms, according to the Associated Press.
A wave of teacher absences described by an activist as “rolling strikes” shut down more than half of Detroit’s 100 public schools Monday, keeping thousands of students at home as a so-called sickout entered a second week. “They’ve known we’ve been in crisis for a long time, and they haven’t done anything”.
Temperatures in the teens appeared to have kept most students indoors, and all Wednesday’s protest – and one last week – did for Carnisha Wesley, 23, was to make her late for her own classes. That decision has resulted in a federal state of emergency being declared in Flint because of the presence of lead in the water.
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The schools’ current emergency manager is Darnell Earley, who has drawn criticism in recent weeks for his previous role as emergency manager of Flint, Mich., from 2013 until January 2015. In response, city officials have started inspecting schools for possible code and safety violations.
