The Detroit Free Press series, “State of Charter Schools,” (June 22-28) will undoubtably win journalism awards. It will be viewed as a stellar piece of investigative journalism. I would agree if I didn’t know better. As a longtime advocate for all children and a voice for children with disabilities, the Detroit Free Press glaringly […]
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Well, I can only partially agree with Detroit Free Press Editorial Editor, Steve Henderson’s description of the 7 day Charter series as being laid out “exquisitely.” Exquisite it was until today’s part 5 of the series. I worked on this on and off with staff-writer, Lori Higgins for more than one year. Lori had concerns
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As the daughter, sibling, cousin, aunt and parent to children (now some are adults) with ADHD, I am outraged by the archaic diagnosis of this neurological brain disorder. I am normally bashing the New York Times for their reporting on psychiatric and find this paper quite biased in their articles. This is one story that
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I can’t stand and do not tolerate when someone says that people living in poverty, on welfare, on food stamps, homeless or with a barely sustaining income, choose this existence. It is insulting. It is inaccurate, and it looks at the problems on such a superficial…45 second cable newsbyte….level, that it makes me want to
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Link to a guest post I wrote on Diane Ravitch’s blog about the bipartisan failure to save Detroit. The public schools of Detroit, like those of Muskegon Heights and Highland Park, have been put under the unilateral rule of an Emergency Manager appointed by the governor. In the latter two districts, the public schools were
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