Aft talk
The history of Detroit/urban education and education policy response; how did we get the EAA?
/ today at Oakman. March to keep school open. More later.
/ some of the outline will be familiar to many of us in the room. The creation of dire financial and academic crises laid the way for emergency powers and drastic action that many people would accept
/ 1999 takeover enrollment academics finances all climbing.
/ 2009 confluence of desire by local corporate Ed reform mt who believed market reform -- Skillman Michigan future Thompson other foundations on the one hand and advent of RTTT on the other.
/ RTTT based on logic of nclb but leverage fed funding in hard times provoke states to put in legislative changes to compete Obama granholm Bipartisan demolition of public schools
/ neoliberal describe. Totally discredited.
EaA.
/ ID lowest 5 percent w possibility of state takeover into state redesign and reform office
/ legislation turfed it over to new entity -- the interlocal agreement
/ 15 schools chosen by Roberts. More than 30 were eligible.
/ we don't exactly know his criteria for those 15.
/ two exited bottom five percent before EAA opened its doors.
/3 were charterized and now form a separate district
/ the secret DPS loans reveal real agenda. Sustain EAA as way of creating multiple school sectors to compete against each other
/ governance neutral after they killed democratic governance.
/ return to Oakman. Need for unions to join together w community mvmts.