Detroit Teacher Sickout Enters Second Day

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Senate leaders, Detroit Public Schools parents hope House will reconsider funding

Treasury report says

By Guy Gordon - Reporter/Anchor

Posted: 11:38 AM, May 10, 2016
Updated: 12:36 PM, May 10, 2016

LANSING, Mich. - When Michigan House Republicans passed a stripped down version of a state rescue package for the state-controlled Detroit Public Schools district, leaders were adamant it provided more than enough “transition” funding to get the new district created in the plan on a solid financial start.

The district's current operating debt is $467 million.

The Senate was a lone voice saying it fell short, but now its a chorus...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/educa...sted-funding-bills-for-detroit-public-schools

 

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Howes: Payback trumps trust, reality in DPS bailout

Daniel Howes, The Detroit News 11:40 p.m. EDT May 9, 2016

Evidently the players in the Detroit Public Schools end-game learned little from the epic bankruptcies of the city and its two hometown automakers.

Instead of offering a package that could entice adversaries toward what could be a consensual settlement, House Republicans are pushing a bare-bones bailout that proposes to retire the district’s debt of roughly $500 million. But give it enough capital to stay out of debt, as the state Senate proposes, and to help rebuild the district?

Naw, not when the majority can condition its rescue on accompanying anti-union legislation that would limit collective bargaining and stiffen penalties for illegal strikes, payback for the Detroit Federation of Teachers’ attitude in general and the union’s sickouts to protest the real prospect of payless paydays in particular.

Instead of quietly warning interim DFT President Ivy Bailey that the district could have trouble making payroll after June 30, the retired federal bankruptcy judge-turned-emergency manager, Steven Rhodes, drops the news in a letter that is promptly leaked to the media and union members, ensuring the sickouts (or lockouts, in Bailey’s telling) that followed...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/bu...ck-trumps-trust-reality-dps-bailout/84162870/