Education – Michigan
The battle over Detroit public schools: A dispatch from District 2 (the barrio)
by Elena Herrada | Issue: February / March 2011
‘We are in a pitched battle over who controls the school system, and we have not lost’ I was appointed to the Detroit School Board in July, 2010 – the only Latina/o on the 11-member board. The elected board member was forced out by a minor scandal. The rest of the board is African American. [...]
Detroit students face ’economic violence’ from the state and the foundations
by Elena Herrada | Issue: February / March 2011
The students at Western High School who waited six weeks for a chemistry teacher were told that they would “pass the class.” The ones with whom I spoke, all 11th graders, hope to go to college. They know that if they get accepted by a college (and they will get accepted, based on their grade-point [...]