FACTSHEET
Don't be fooled!
Vote NO on Proposal E!
"E is Evil"
What the Mayor & Chamber of Commerce WANT you to believe about Proposal E
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The Ugly Truth About Proposal E
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THEY SAY: |
THE UGLY TRUTH: |
| "Proposal E gives back to Detroit the right to vote for school board. " |
Proposal E makes
permanent the Mayoral/state takeover that took away our right to
vote. The people who back Proposal E want us to have a school board
in name only - the better to deceive people into voting for this
fraud. The so-called "right to vote" for an utterly powerless board
under a dictatorship of a CEO selected by the Mayor might as well be
no right to vote at all. We deserve the same rights as people of
the 514 other school districts in Michigan. |
| "Proposal E provides a system of checks and balances." |
Proposal E creates a
dictatorship where all the power is the hands of a single
CEO/Superintendent who is appointed by the Mayor and accountable to no
one. This is the opposite of checks and balances. During the current
rule of CEO Kenneth Burnley, Mayor Kilpatrick has not exercised "checks
and balances" a single time to stop any of Burnley's attacks on our
schools. NOT A SINGLE TIME! |
| "We can't go back to the old way. The old elected school board couldn't keep toilet paper in the schools." |
Proposal E will make
the terrible situation of the last five years permanent. There's no
toilet paper in the bathrooms now! The books are old as the
hills. The equipment is antiquated. Over 23,000 students have fled the
district since the beginning of the Mayoral/state takeover. Under CEO
Kenneth Burnley and the current takeover, the district has gone from a
substantial surplus to a 250 million dollar deficit at the beginning of
the past summer. Thousands of teachers and support staff have been laid
off. The quality of education is getting worse and worse. |
| The real, often unstated, argument for Proposal E is that in order to get corporate money into education, we must bow before the corporate interests and accept their narrow charter school/trade school schemes for the youth of Detroit. |
There is no other
solution for the problems of educating Detroit's youth than a fight for
more resources for Detroit's public schools. Winning the resources
necessary for Detroit public schools is going to take a struggle. To
make that struggle we need an accountable leadership of the Detroit
public schools that unites the city of Detroit for the fight in Lansing
and Washington for the increase in resources necessary to reduce class
size dramatically. Everyone knows this step is needed; a unified fight
is the only way to achieve it. Proposal E will only make the divisions
of the last five years worse and make it harder for us to win the fight
for those additional resources. |
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"Proposal E will make
the members of the (utterly powerless) board closer to the people by
electing all members from 9 separate Districts within the city." |
The people behind Proposal E only want all of the members elected on a district basis so that none of the members of this powerless, fraud body will even be able to say they represent the whole city and will therefore weaken their position against the Mayor's hand-picked, all-powerful CEO. |
| "Proposal E means putting kids first." |
Proposal E means continuing the decline and deterioration
in the education available to all young people in Detroit. For the
people of Detroit to put their children first requires more democracy
not Proposal E's denial of democracy. The people behind Proposal E are
attacking public education across the board to accomplish the aim of
privatizing and charterizing education. An elected, accountable
leadership of the schools could never get away with these terrible
attacks on the young people of Detroit. The people behind Proposal E
need a dictatorship in order to do it. Really putting the children and
youth of Detroit first means fighting for the resources necessary to
offer equal, quality education in the city. |
