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 […]
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With Snyder’s EAA going down in flames, the EMU community urges their administration to sever ties
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, Eli Broad, 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, Teach for America, teachers union, threats to public education, union busting 20 Comments
This weekend’s many violent crimes, what they mean about our community, and how we should respond
While I was away this past weekend, it would seem all hell broke loose in Ypsilanti. An Eastern Michigan University student athlete by the name of Demarius Reed was shot to death in an apparent robbery on Friday morning, after leaving a party at the University Green Apartments, at the 700 block of West Clark […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Abe's Coney Island, armed robbery, city income tax, Demarius Reed, dice, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, EMU Police Department, full moon, gun violence, hunter's moon, Laura Dickinson, Leforge, local income tax, Orange Taylor, Peninsular Place Apartments, perception of crime, Pete Murdock, police investigations, public safety, Putnam Residence Hall, rape, robbery, Steve Pierce, Stop City Income Tax, street lights, Tony DiGiusti, University Green Apartments, vans, violence, Walton Residence Hall, Ypsilanti police department 68 Comments
Housing incentives for municipal employees… is now the right time?
A few days ago, in a post about the recent string of downtown burglaries, I noted that, given that we have fewer police on the streets these days due to budget cuts, it might help if those police officers that we did have working for the City, actually lived here. I don’t know that it […]
Posted in Detroit, Ideas, Ypsilanti Also tagged Eastern Michigan University, Elvis Costello, EMU, getting more local employees to live in Ypsilanti, housing, housing incintives, Lee Azus, Live Downtown, municipal employees, Murph, police brutality, puppet public service employees, residency, residency rule, Ypsilanti Fire Department, Ypsilanti police department, Ypsilanti Township 21 Comments