Last week, as you may recall, I posted something here about how so-called “school choice” was adversely impacting our local school districts. Well, it just so happens that, in the most recent issue of The Center for Michigan’s magazine, The Bridge, they have a piece on that very subject, which goes into quite a bit […]
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“School choice, metro Detroit’s new white flight”
Posted in Detroit, Education, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged Chastity Pratt Dawsey, dismantling of public education, education reform, Gary Miron, Great Lakes Education Project, Kerner Commission, Mike Wilkinson, Proposal A, public education, racism, schools of choice, separate and unequal, The Bridge, white flight 22 Comments
Bestselling author Shaka Senghor takes us inside the “big warehouse of human misery” that is the American prison system, filmmaker Donald Harrison tells us about his new Commie High documentary, and we talk judicial reform with civil rights attorney Dick Soble… on episode 43 of the Saturday Six Pack
For those of you who didn’t catch episode 43 of The Saturday Six Pack when it was first broadcast a few weeks ago, it’s now available online. If you scroll to the bottom of this post, you’ll find it embedded. If you’d rather not hear my voice, though, here are my abbreviated notes. Our first […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Detroit, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged #cut50, accountability partners, authors, Calvin Evans, civil rights, Cut 50, Detroit, Dick Soble, Donald Goines, fiction, Malcolm X, mysteries, Oprah, overincarceration, pacts, prison, prison reform, Red Squad, Shaka Senghor, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the cost of incarceration, the hiring on ex-fellons, Urban Ashes 10 Comments
Should I sign the Snyder recall petition? What are you planning to do?
In the wake of evidence surfacing that proves the Snyder administration knew of a connection between Flint’s water and a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease a full ten months before they took action, and Snyder’s subsequent refusal to testify before a Congressional committee as to what happened in Flint, it’s not surprising that even the […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bill Schuette, breach of duty, Brian Calley, cake, Cakegate, Candice Miller, Dick DeVos, Emergency Manager, executive orders, Flint, Flint water crisis, gross negligence, Koch brothers, lead, lead poisoning, Legionnaires' disease, manslaughter, Michigan Attorney General, petitions, Rick Snyder, School Reform Office, State Board of Canvassers, Warren Consolidated Schools Board of Education, water 39 Comments