Chris Savage at Eclectablog has been following the fortunes and misfortunes of the Michigan Education Achievement Authority since its inception in 2011.
Savage was thinking of writing a summary of the serial scandals, corruption, incompetence, and educational disaster, but decided the best way to show it was to post a list of the headlines of the stories he has written about the EAA.
This was Governor Rick Snyder’s pet program for “saving” the poor children of Detroit from their failing public schools. Instead of helping the public schools, Snyder decided to create this special district, in which all the lowest-performing schools were clustered. There, they would be under the control of a single administrator, selected by the Governor. The first EAA leader was John Covington, a graduate of the unaccredited Broad Superintendents Academy. He swiftly left his job in Kansas City (which lost its accreditation after he departed) to take the higher-paying job in Detroit. He left the EAA under a cloud.
This should be a documentary about the failure of corporate reform. Maybe someone who sees Chris Savage’s stories will start thinking of making that documentary. It is a very sad story, because the children of Detroit need a good education, and they are not getting it under Governor Snyder’s rule.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Read this posting with two others from yesterday—
“Detroit Teacher: Why Does Governor Snyder Let Our Schools Rot?”
Link: https://dianeravitch.net/2016/01/23/detroit-teacher-why-does-governor-snyder-let-our-schools-rot/
“Mercedes Schneider: This is What Detroit Public Schools Look like.”
Link: https://dianeravitch.net/2016/01/23/mercedes-schneider-this-is-what-detroit-public-schools-look-like/
But never forget: according to the rheephorm establishment, well, let’s allow one of their maximum “thought leaders” unburden himself:
“Jeb Bush Praises Rick Snyder’s Handling of Flint Water Crisis” with the subtitle “But his administration is largely to blame for the disaster. Oops.”
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-rick-snyder-flint-water_us_56a4e271e4b0d8cc109a6324
And to tie this all up together: let’s not forget Mr. Darnell Earley who failed upward—
fFrom a thread on this blog, comment by Anita C.
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The current emergency manager of Detroit Public Schools is Darnell Earley (salary of $225,000). In his previous position, he was the emergency manager of Flint.(salary of $185,000), where he was responsible for making the decision to use the Flint River as the water source for the people of Flint. That’s a $45,000 raise. I would say it’s unbelievable, except that sadly, it’s very believable (and reprehensible).
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Link: https://dianeravitch.net/2016/01/21/emails-michigan-officials-knew-about-poisoned-water-and-scoffed/
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Detroit was really the center of the ed reform movement when Broad launched his effort. Arne Duncan called Detroit “ground zero”.They were all there- Rhee and the rest- it was really star-studded.
Did any of the national reformers (including Duncan) visit the public schools and see the conditions we’ve all seen since the teachers brought attention to this issue?
DETROIT, January 23, 2013 –Today, the Detroit Regional Chamber announced that nationally renowned education reform advocate and StudentsFirst founder and CEO Michelle Rhee will provide a keynote address at the 2013 Mackinac Policy Conference.
http://www.detroitchamber.com/education-expert-michelle-rhee-keynote-detroit-regional-chambers-2013-mackinac-policy-conference/
I can’t believe anyone would waste time to listen to her hollow message after she has repeatedly failed to prove anything of value. She like Sarah Palin is a notorious self promoter.
The post you linked was written by Chris Savage, the owner and publisher of Eclectablog.
A documentary about Detroit schools with a link to Flint. Sounds like a perfect job for Michael Moore.
Just need to say , I’m from Michigan and if it weren’t for Chris and his team at Eclectablog, many of these dirty behind the scenes moves wouldn’t have been brought to light. Check out his blog, been following it for awhile and they do an awesome job!
Thanks so much. I appreciate it : )