NDSG talk
Feb 14 2013
Overview of terrain
One thing they agree on. -- Arne Duncan, the broad foundation, Diane Ravitch, Pauline Lipman
Detroit is the epicenter or ground zero of educational neoliberalism or assault on public Ed right now
***State intrusion***
takeover 99 to 2006 2009 to present
Emergency manager
***Foundation leadership***
broad foundation gates Walton
Skillman Kellogg McGregor Kresge
Re shaping education on a neoliberal model
Problem is lack of competition self serving bureaucracies teachers unions
Turn parents into educational consumers
Heavy emphasis on tests to allow them to compare
Bobb
EAA chancellor
DPS
Tfa iall over Detroit in DPS charters and EAA
Especially in EAA. 15 schools all 600 teachers fired 125 to 200 brought in
*** School closings. ***
150 of 250 approximate
DPS board disempowerment
***Legislation***
Right to work
EAA expansion
Emergency manager
Parent trigger law
Teacher humiliation law
Charters 80 percent for profit
Relationship to spatial reorganization of city
Shattering of black space. Black identity markers.
Priority is to create white space, change the narrative of Detroit in the white spatial imaginary.
Racial nature
Read CFA resolution
Pass out copies
Invite to board mtg