[Mr. Brightside]

My summary since no posting is allowed from Detroit Free Press.

[TChris]

Memo to Detroit Teachers:

Actions have consequences.

[edcoil]

The government, will simply raise taxes to cover the shortfall instead of sueing the unions out of business.

[mvpel]

A mother of a friend of mine used to work for the DPS, and the stories she told would curl your hair. Good riddance, I say.

[tigtog]

Well there seemed to have been around 25,000 mature adults in Detroit prior to the strike. I wonder what took them so long to figure the Detroit schools were organized madness??

[shooter223]

I am in the Detroit area(Lincoln Park)......here is my understanding from local news reports: State aid is based on X amount of $ per student enrolled on a certain day ......fewer students=less $ ........sounds like they did it to themselves

[RexBeach]

Detroit has become Cuba.

[AD from SpringBay]

But all the teachers and all the administrators and all the coaches will continue to be paid and they will continue to complain about not making enough money.

[Enchante]

Of course the teacher union head denies they bear any responsibility at all.....

Maybe this kind of sudden "shock treatment" which will require dramatic layoffs could be an opportunity for reform, but I seriously doubt it. Since the very people deciding about the layoffs will be a big part of the problem, the worst hacks and deadwood will be kept on, administrators with fat salaries, etc.

Detroit as a whole seems to be in terminal decline, and this is just one more symptom of the disaster.

[HamiltonJay]

The very idea that teachers have a "right" to strike is insanity....

Should all be summarily fired.

[freedumb2003]

My summary since no posting is allowed from Detroit Free Press.

How ironic that we can't post from a site called "freep."

[dangus]

>> Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick <<

So, the mayor is Irish?

(just silliness.)

[AwesomePossum]

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[GovernmentShrinker]

Awesome! Can we please have another teacher's strike? ANYTHING that shrinks the public school system is a good thing.

[Beagle8U]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006609220339

You can post a link

[therut]

HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

[blu]

This is how the schools are funded:
A. Count Days
The pupil membership count days established in the State School Aid Act are as follows:
Regular School Year
Fourth (4th) Wednesday in September
Second (2nd) Wednesday in February*

*For a district not in session on the supplemental count day, the immediately preceding day on which the district is in session must be used.

I caught a glimpse of a story that said Detroit was appealing to the state to extend their count day, but can't find the actual story. Each kid is worth X amount of dollars (post above gives amount). Detroit will be in session on count day....