Subject: Re: DRAFT: Detroit on Jobs
From: "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>
To: Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>
Cc: Karen Finney <[email-masked]>, Megan Rooney <[email-masked]>, Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:25:50 -0800
List-Id: <speechdrafts.hillaryclinton.com>

Agree with Karen we should probably beef up the sentence on page 10:

We are giving this to HRC for background for debate and events this weekend
-- Megan, I'd cull from here to make the Detroit School line more focused
on outrage and need for immediate solutions:

*K-12 INSERT / DETROIT SCHOOLS:*  *The Detroit Schools are in awful
condition.  What would you do about it?  Do you support local control of
the school district?*

   - Lets recognize for a moment that there's a pattern here. Another
   low-income, largely African-American city with a problem that is
   devastating a generation of children. Another state appointed Emergency
   Manager. Another round of excuses and finger pointing as the problem gets
   worse and your Governor sits on his hands.

   - Detroit's children are sitting in classrooms with rodents and mold.
   Ceilings are caving in. The heat is barely functioning. 6 percent of
   fourth graders are proficient in reading. 5 percent are proficient in math.

   - That's unacceptable in America. Detroit has fought too hard. Its
   families have sacrificed too much. Its time for action.

   - Its time for Governor Snyder to give Detroit's schools back to
   Detroit. Its time to rebuild our crumbling schools and invest in our
   students and teachers. Its time to give every child clean water, a safe
   classroom, and a world class education.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> Schools is in there no?  Page 10.
>
> On Mar 3, 2016, at 7:08 PM, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Recognize we have to do jobs/trade message - BUT - Given what's happening
> in Detroit regarding schools and the lawsuit AFT recently filed against the
> city can we really go there and not even mention it given what an advocate
> she has been in Flint? There are serious complaints about potential health
> issues related to mold, but DPS has apparently blocked health inspectors
> from the teacher's union. Seems a bit tone deaf not to say something but to
> suggest that good things are happening in Eastern Detroit.
>
>
> Teachers union says DPS blocked its health inspectors
>
> Officials from Detroit's teachers union blasted Detroit Public Schools on
> Wednesday after the district blocked the union's environmental experts from
> investigating possible mold growth, water damage and other problems inside
> nine schools.
>
> "Our members are demanding that we give them specific answers as to what's
> going on in their schools," Ivy Bailey, interim president of the Detroit
> Federation of Teachers, said at a news conference outside Spain-Elementary
> Middle School.
>
> http://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2016/02/03/dft-school-inspections/79766166/
>
>
> AFT sues Detroit schools over decrepit conditions
>
> Mold, rodents and water-damaged ceilings were among the unsafe classroom
> conditions cited in a recently filed lawsuit against the Detroit Public
> Schools by the American Federation of Teachers-Michigan, the Detroit
> Federation of Teachers and parent groups. David Hecker, the president of
> the AFT-Michigan, said the action was taken to force the district to
> respond after years of neglect. The January lawsuit — and rolling teacher
> sick-outs — drew national attention to the long-neglected schools.
>
>
> Detroit Public Schools will be completely broke by April. Here's how
> things got to this point.
>
> http://www.vox.com/2016/3/3/11156026/detroit-public-schools-rhodes-explained
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Megan Rooney <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone --
>>
>> Here's a revised draft for tomorrow.  Thanks to everyone who sent edits
>> today.  This has gone to the Secretary.  Thanks.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> *Karen Finney*
> *Senior Adviser for Communications & Political Outreach*
> *Hillary for America*
> [email-masked] <[email-masked]>*
>
>

-- 
Ann O'Leary
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Hillary for America
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