Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Friday, April 22, 2011

Mass Teacher Layoffs and School Closures Hit Detroit

Save for perhaps Newark, is there a city anywhere in this country that has suffered more from the ravages of capitalism than Detroit?

Detroit teachers union members will soon be replaced with charter school teachers, if emergency manager Robert Bobb has his way.

http://www.labornotes.org/2011/04/mass-teacher-layoffs-and-school-closures-hit-detroit