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I also grew up in Dearborn and my dad worked at Ford. Later in life I wound up teaching in Detroit. Signs of decay were all around back then. I understand that about 10 years ago, a philanthropist offered something like 200 million dollars to establish charter schools in Detroit. But Gov. Grandholm and the teachers union rejected the offer because he wasn’t going to require teachers to belong to the union.

Sad to say that the city is going down; not even a good man like Dave Bing can save it.

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I understand that about 10 years ago, a philanthropist offered something like 200 million dollars to establish charter schools in Detroit. But Gov. Grandholm and the teachers union rejected the offer because he wasn’t going to require teachers to belong to the union.

SLB...

Go here...

http://newsone.com/newsone-original/associated-press/why-detroit-rejected-200-million-for-schools-and-newark-didnt/

Mr. Thompson took his money off the table. I have friend a Detroit Teacher at the time, her story is as follows. The Teachers Struck, and took a day off and went to Lansing to protest. That was it for this teacher, it turned her from a "liberal"" to a "conservative" in a nano-second, and at one point had Dr Thomas Sowell as an email pen/pal friend, her conversion was that pronounced. She left the Detroit System as well.

I hear Mr. Thompson is building about 1 school a year in a deal struck beforw Kawame was halled off in chrome bracelets...