{"id":293710,"date":"2017-02-07T20:41:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/half-of-detroits-public-schools-targeted-for-closure\/"},"modified":"2017-02-07T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:41:02","slug":"half-of-detroits-public-schools-targeted-for-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/half-of-detroits-public-schools-targeted-for-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Detroit\u2019s public schools targeted for closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>DeVos plans to \u201crewrite the education playbook for America\u201d<\/h4>\n<h2>Half of Detroit\u2019s public schools targeted for closure<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Nancy Hanover<br \/>\n    <br \/>7 February 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>As the US Senate prepares to vote on the nomination of right-wing billionaire Betsy DeVos for secretary of education, her war against public education is coming to fruition in Detroit, the poorest big city in America.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan\u2019s State Reform Office (SRO) has released a list of 38 schools slated to be closed as early as June 30 for \u201cnon-performance.\u201d It is the first use of a 2009 state law, heavily promoted by DeVos and her pro-privatization lobbying group, Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP), to shut down public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Another 35 schools are targeted on a second list for state intervention and possible closure in the following school year, 2017-2018. If implemented, the two years of closures would mean a loss of 53 schools in Detroit, nearly half of the newly formed Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD). Under Michigan\u2019s law, these \u201cpriority\u201d schools can be closed, taken over by a state-appointed \u201cCEO\u201d with full powers to terminate contracts and fire personnel or be converted into charter schools.<\/p>\n<p>DeVos has long shaped the anti-public education policies in Michigan and has donated heavily to Republican state legislators. However, these measures would never have been implemented without the support of the Obama administration, local Democratic Party officials and, most significantly, the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, which have repeatedly suppressed the struggle of teachers, parents and students to defend public education.<\/p>\n<p>Schools set to close by the end of the school year include 16 in the DPSCD, eight in Detroit\u2019s Education Achievement&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/02\/07\/detr-f07.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 DeVos plans to \u201crewrite the education playbook for America\u201d Half of Detroit\u2019s public schools targeted for closure By Nancy Hanover 7 February 2017 As the US Senate prepares to vote on the nomination of right-wing billionaire Betsy DeVos for secretary of education, her war against public education is coming to fruition in Detroit, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-293710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}