which cause a hardship to Detroiters, even when the Emergency Manager allows them to talk about it. The
Detroit School Board is denied resources as simple as use a multi-page copy machine and as important as
notice about contracts the school district enters into. Under the direction of the Governor, Emergency
Managers make unilateral decisions, move millions out of the district, and enter into no bid contracts, and
create policies and procedures which have on occasion been retaliatory, unsafe, dangerous, unethical,
improper and unnecessary. Meanwhile, black, Latino, and disabled students, as well as minority voters,
employees, tax payers and parents suffer the decisions, mismanagement of funds and resources, errors,
intimidation, harassment and retaliation. PA 436 is the law. In the application of PA 436 under Governor
Snyder, actions taken in its application of education in Detroit has had an adverse impact to the general
population and disabled students in particular. Moreover, PA 436 has exacerbated the effects of the
“neutral” policies of State Authority under Engler, and Granholm, which had already brought DPS to its
knees.
School Board Member LaMar Lemmons repeats over and over: “Former Superintendent Michael Flanagan
has said to me as then President of the Detroit Board of Education, that he has regularly included as a line
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