“In a white school district a person would not get a $50,000 bonus for
running up a deficit. We feel completely deceived by the Governor. And
yet our hands are tied. He is in control. Our children are shortchanged.
Our district may not survive Emergency Management over all we own,
and our public assets are seized and given to somebody else. Who? We
don’t know. There is not enough respect for us - in him - to care to tell
us.”
Ida Short,
Vice President, Detroit Board of Education
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