Tag Archives: Eli Broad

With Snyder’s EAA going down in flames, the EMU community urges their administration to sever ties

By Mark | February 19, 2014

On Thursday, February 20, at 10:00 AM, members of the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) community opposed to the ongoing association between their university and the Snyder administration’s troubled Educational Achievement Authority (EAA), will be gathering in Welch Hall to “demand” that all connections be immediately severed. Following is my discussion with EMU College of Education […]

Posted in Detroit, Education, Michigan, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged BUZZ, charter schools, defunding public schools, Detroit, dismantling of public education, EAA, Eastern Michigan University, Education, education reform, Educational Achievement Authority, Ellen Cogen Lipton, EMU, EMU College of Education, failing schools, for-profit charter schools, House Bill 4369, House Bill 5268, Jase Bolger, John Covington, Lisa Posthumus Lyons, MEAP, Michigan Education Assessment Program, MIke Flanagan, public education, Rick Snyder, Susan Martin, Teach for America, teachers union, threats to public education, union busting | 20 Comments

CEOs running our schools… what could possibly go wrong?

By Mark | April 11, 2011

If you’ll recall, a couple of weeks ago I posted some video here of State Senator Rebekah Warren commenting on Governor Rick Snyder’s Emergency Financial Manager Act. Warren noted, among other things, that there was no requirement that those emergency financial managers deployed to take over our State’s failing school systems have any background in […]

Posted in Education, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Chris Hedges, critical thinking, Education, education reform, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, Finish school system, Finland, Leadership Academy, Michael Bloomberg, no child left behind, parasitic teachers, Rebekah Warren, Rick Snyder, Superintendents Academy, teachers and their evil agendas, Texas Miracle, trends in American education | 12 Comments

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