indago
02-10-2016, 07:37 AM
From WXYZ Detroit 9 February 2016:
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Today is "Count Day" at schools across Michigan. The state will keep track of attendance and then determines funding for schools. ...Graves has three children in Detroit Public Schools. She says she will keep them home because money is power, and the district needs to return some form of power to parents. Graves knows Count Day attendance determines about 10 percent of the school district's state funding in Michigan.
...The organizers of what they call a "student sick-out" say they want a forensic accounting of where district money is going, schools fixed up to code, and local control before the district is paid for doing what they say is a poor job of educating their kids.
One church is supporting students who take part. The Central United Methodist Church at 23 E Adams Ave in Detroit is inviting parents to sent their kids to its “Freedom School.”
Students who go there will be fed, and provided social studies, black history, art, music, and gym classes for the day.
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article/video (http://www.wxyz.com/news/fix-my-schools/detroit-parents-threaten-to-keep-kids-home-from-school-on-count-day)
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Today is "Count Day" at schools across Michigan. The state will keep track of attendance and then determines funding for schools. ...Graves has three children in Detroit Public Schools. She says she will keep them home because money is power, and the district needs to return some form of power to parents. Graves knows Count Day attendance determines about 10 percent of the school district's state funding in Michigan.
...The organizers of what they call a "student sick-out" say they want a forensic accounting of where district money is going, schools fixed up to code, and local control before the district is paid for doing what they say is a poor job of educating their kids.
One church is supporting students who take part. The Central United Methodist Church at 23 E Adams Ave in Detroit is inviting parents to sent their kids to its “Freedom School.”
Students who go there will be fed, and provided social studies, black history, art, music, and gym classes for the day.
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article/video (http://www.wxyz.com/news/fix-my-schools/detroit-parents-threaten-to-keep-kids-home-from-school-on-count-day)