Detroit’s public schools are already stretched to the breaking point, yet federal and state officials continue to push policies that make life harder for students, teachers, and communities. During a visit to Renaissance High School yesterday afternoon, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon was joined by Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall, two leaders whose agendas, one at the federal level, the other at the state level, intersect in ways that threaten the very institutions they claim to support. While McMahon touts “state control” and Hall defends a deeply underfunded budget, the combined impact is clear: public schools are being hollowed out in the name of reform.
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