Tag Archives: Catherine Ferguson Academy

Exploring Michelle Rhee’s destructive influence over Michigan education reform

By Mark | January 10, 2013

I’m spending my evening getting acquainted with Michelle Rhee, the controversial former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools, who’s gone on to a lucrative career as a hired gun in the fight to destroy teachers unions and privatize American public education. While I’d heard about her in the past, and I’d known that she’d […]

Students at Ann Arbor’s Roberto Clemente high school organize to fight the impending closure of their school

By Mark | June 12, 2012

I’ve been receiving letters for the past several weeks, asking me to post something about the situation at Ann Arbor’s Roberto Clemente Student Development Center. Not being terribly knowledgeable about what’s going on, and not knowing what I could possibly add to the conversation, I’ve been reluctant to jump into the fray. But, this morning, […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Education | Also tagged Ann Arbor Public Schools, Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, dismantling of public education, education reform, Roberto Clemente Student Development Center, Terry Carpenter, Tia Jones | 35 Comments

Students at Detroit’s Western High School walk out over planned school closings and cuts in education funding, chanting “They sat cut back! We say fight back!”

By Mark | April 29, 2012

Increasing, we’re seeing students in Detroit step-up and fight for the educations that they’re entitled to as American citizens. Every few weeks, it seems, there’s a different battle being waged. If it’s not kids being arrested for protesting the closing of their schools, it’s kids being suspended for having the audacity to demand that they […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged Clark Park, demands, Detroit Public Schools, Freddie Burse, Frederick Douglass Academy, free school, Maybury Elementary, Occupy Ypsilanti, poetry, Raychel Gafford, Roy Roberts, school closings, social justice, Southwest Detroit, Southwest Detroit Freedom School, Southwestern High School, Steve Wasko, students, the challenges of urban students, we need a revolution | 16 Comments

50 Detroit high school students suspended for having the audacity to demand “An Education”

By Mark | March 31, 2012

The following story, regarding a student protest at Detroit’s Frederick Douglass Academy, which resulted in the suspension of 50 students on Thursday, ran yesterday on FOX 2 News. When asked by the Detroit Free Press why he was marching in front of the school, senior Tevin Hill said, “Right now, I’m not going to be […]

Posted in Detroit, Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged call to action, Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, dismantling of public education, domestic terrorism, Frederick Douglass Academy, Hutaree, prison industrial complex, public education, racism, sedition, tax the rich, Tevin Hill, the growing gap between rich and poor, trends in American education | 16 Comments

One more post on the takeover of the Catherine Ferguson Academy

By Mark | June 19, 2011

A few days ago, in a post about Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy for pregnant and parenting teens, and how, at the order of Roy Roberts, the Emergency Financial Manager placed in charge of the Detroit Public Schools, it was being turned into a charter school, I posed a question about how much it presently cost […]