The Teachers Of Detroit 's Public

Why are tax payer’s dollars wasted by spending this money on terminating teachers? Writing in Time, Stephey states that “Some school districts have resorted to separation

The principal suspended the students until the end of the protest. The Tinker’s sued the School District for violating their freedom of expression right.

There has been many attempts to solving this problem, on all different types of levels. Local levels with committees and coalitions such as The Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren have been striving towards a solution. For a strong coalition, there needs to be adequate human resources. This means the number of people involved and the power of the people involved (Graham, 181). The Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren has regular citizens such as concerned parents, people on the school board, and also people with connections to higher powers. On the state level, there is Governor Rick Snyder putting more emphasis and promoting more blue collared jobs that only require skills training. Since this problem exists throughout the nation and crosses state

The schools from poorer towns and cities do not have the financial assets available to them to hire the kind of teachers that schools with more money have the capability to employ.

A low income school in New Haven, Connecticut started the new year telling students they would be attending school until 4:15 P.M. four days a week. New Haven teachers in an unprecedented move allowed their teacher unions to take over the rewriting of their contracts. This provided the teacher with more freedom with curriculum and time management. Although the final outcome was beneficial the origins of the extended day was not welcomed.

After several years of success, the required cuts along with economic woes rendered Proposal A largely ineffective and unable to properly fund Michigan’s schools, creating a massive problem in the way Michigan school districts are to be funded, as well as developing a need for new educational policy to supplement or overhaul Proposal A and the Michigan educational system.

There are efforts being made by Rick Snyder who, “has supported a plan to put public money toward a $650 million downtown development project…The project would create 8,300 jobs” (Drape). While this creates thousands of jobs, it still places the city millions more in debt. Shikha Dalmia wrote that, “Detroit’s unemployment rate hovers around 18.5 percent. Median household income is barely half of the U.S. average. Almost 60 percent of the city’s (predominantly black) children live below the poverty level.” The children of Detroit have to suffer the most. Living below poverty level means that children will have less food to eat, which might cause them to not be able to concentrate in school. By this happening, it causes children to not be prepared to apply for the jobs that are available in Detroit due to the inadequate education level required. With unpaid taxes and high unemployment rates, it is no surprise that Detroit also has a high crime and murder

“Wilmington said they justified their ridiculous actions by saying our teachers would understand us missing class, but every teacher is different. Some teachers will not accept any absences no matter the circumstances, this was definitely not an exception,” said Dickerson.

Relief Sought: This case centers on the topic of teachers’ rights to free speech and whether actions outside the classroom can result in termination of employment.

Therefore, when teachers are taking a stand and going on strike, they are taking advantage of their individual right of freedom of speech. Also, this story was covered all over the news, the press in which classical liberals had the right to do. In this situation, with the point of view from a classical liberalist, there is nothing remotely wrong with teachers standing a stand and using their freedom of speech and the press to get what they believe needs to be done, to be done. However, classical liberalism does not mention any rights or freedom in the aspect of education, therefore, teachers going on strike in the view of a classical liberalist, would not affect others or the

This crisis mentality is in stark contrast to years of survey research showing that Americans generally give high marks to their local schools. Going back to 1984, Phi Delta Kappa International and Gallup surveys have found that the populace holds their neighborhood schools in high regard. That’s been true every single year — and in fact, this year’s survey found that

94 out of 97 Detroit Public Schools were closed after teacher's called in "sick" on Monday, after teachers found out that they would not be getting paid after June. The teachers found out over the weekend that the district ran out of money to June 30, according to Ivy Bailey, the interim president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers. More than 500 people rallied outside of the school district administration building this morning in support of teacher's. Nikhol Atkins, a staff member at the Detroit Federation of Teachers told CNN "There's a basic agreement in America: When you put i a day's work, you'll receive a day's pay DPS (Detroit Public Schools) is breaking that deal," Bailey also said "Teachers want to be in the classroom giving children

In Detroit, for the academic year of 2014-15, only 17.2 percent of all 8th grade students scored proficient in reading and only 6.9 percent of all 8th grade students scored proficient in mathematics (“Annual education report Detroit city school district M-STEP grades 3-8,” 2016). This is compared to an annual

Detroit, the motor city, known by many for cars and to others for being the murder capital of the world. This has caused many people to stop visiting and exclude Detroit from being a place of interest. I have lived here all my life, and yes, it has had its rough times, but lately Detroit has been improving drastically. The causes of the city to improve were to make people already living here feel safer. Moreover, to change our illustration as one of the most dangerous cities. In addition to this we want people to start visiting again and to see the metamorphosis that has struck our city. Many recent changes brought to our city have been architectural, criminal rates precipitating and film making. The city as a whole has been working

When schools are faced with rising costs they are, “coerced to trim budgets by reducing staff, increasing class size, deferring maintenance, and eliminating athletic programs and class trips” (Trainor 42). These cuts naturally cause some unrest with everyone in the school district. Dine Anderson even mentions in the article, “Who’ll Fuel Our Schools” that one of her friends said that, “A good public school is rarer to find than a parking spot in San Francisco.”