D’Artagnan Collier, the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate for Detroit mayor spoke to protestors from Detroit’s Northwestern High School Alumni Association on Saturday. They were opposing Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy Roberts’s plan to turn the 100-year-old public high school into a “self-governing school” called the Detroit Collegiate Preparatory Academy at Northwestern (DCPA). DCPA was originally supposed to take over space at Northwestern High School for only two years until officials found a more suitable location. Now the DPS emergency manager has decided to replace the former public school with what is essentially a privately run charter school. Celebrating 100 years of teaching at the start of the 2014 academic year, Northwestern has been home to many accomplished figures, including Norman Whitfield, a songwriter and producer who cofounded Motown Records, and Henry Carr, a two-time Olympic gold medal sprinter. Roy Roberts, a former executive at General Motors and director of a private equity firm, wields dictatorial powers granted by the state legislature and authorized by Governor Rick Snyder to void labor agreements and impose drastic cuts. Last year, Roberts said Northwestern would be one of the 10 public high schools he would turn into a self-governing school. These schools will be run along business lines, with leading figures from area corporations taking a direct role in hiring and shaping the curriculum. Members appointed to the councils running the school will be chosen by Roberts and administered by the Detroit Public Schools Office of Charter Schools. wsws.org/en/articles/2013/06/18/nwhs-j18.html
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:05:54 +0000
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