Teachers

Detroit teachers rally against concessions and layoffs

August 26, 2009

Teachers protesting wage cuts

Nearly 800 Detroit teachers and support staff picketed Detroit Public Schools (DPS) headquarters at the Fisher Building Tuesday morning. The protest, organized by the Detroit Federation of Teachers and the coalition of unions associated with DPS, was called to protest the layoffs of teachers and other schools employees and the concessions demanded by the district headed by financial czar Robert Bobb.

Unite all Detroit area workers to defend public education and defeat the attack on jobs and living standards!

August 25, 2009

Detroit teachers protesting concessions

The Socialist Equality Party calls on all teachers and school employees to fight for a unified struggle, alongside workers throughout the city and state, to defeat the demand for wage and benefit concessions, layoffs and the gutting of public education and other basic services by big business and the Democrats and Republicans.

Detroit Public Schools financial manager dismisses pleas at public meeting

June 25, 2009

Maribel Hernandez

At a public meeting on Thursday, students, parents and community members urged Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager of the Detroit Public Schools, to reverse the decision to remove the principal, Rebecca Luna, from Western International High School in southwest Detroit. The pleas fell on deaf ears.