Mark Maynard | Southwest Detroit

Michigan’s first for-profit charter school goes union in Detroit… Will others follow?

By Mark | February 12, 2013

A few days ago, something positive happened on the Michigan education landscape. The teachers of the Cesar Chavez Academy, a charter school in southwest Detroit, voted to unionize. What follows is my admittedly too short interview with Daniel Kukuk, one of the American Federation of Teachers organizers who helped make it happen. MARK: So, what [...]

Posted in Detroit, Education, Michigan | Also tagged American Federation of Teachers, Arts Academy in the Woods, Cesar Chavez Academy, charter schools, Daniel Kukuk, Detroit, Education Achievement Authority, education reform, for-profit charter schools, Fraser, Michigan Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff, National Labor Relations Board, right-to-work, teachers unions, The Leona Group, union organizing, unions | 13 Comments

How gerrymandering is killing American Democracy, and why we need to fight for transparent, non-partisan redistricting in Michigan

By Mark | January 3, 2013

Every ten years, the Michigan legislature has an opportunity, after assessing the results of the federal census, to redraw congressional districts to reflect shifts in population. The most recent redrawing of lines took place in 2011, and was approved by the Department of Justice in January, 2012, despite concerns that redrawn districts violated the Voting [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2010 census, census, Citizens Redistricting Commission, David Wasserman, Department of Justice, disenfranchisement, electoral college, Eric Holder, Gary Peters, gerrymandering, Hansen Clarke, Michigan's 14th Congressional District, Princeton, Proposition 11, Proposition 20, redistricting, right-to-work, Sam Wang, Supreme Court, Voters FIRST Act, Voting Rights Act | 17 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 Catherine Ferguson Academy, 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 Freedom School, Southwestern High School, Steve Wasko, students, the challenges of urban students, we need a revolution | 16 Comments

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Michigan’s first for-profit charter school goes union in Detroit… Will others follow?

How gerrymandering is killing American Democracy, and why we need to fight for transparent, non-partisan redistricting in Michigan

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