Subject: Re: DRAFT: Detroit on Jobs
From: "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>
To: Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
Cc: Amanda Renteria <[email-masked]>, Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>, Megan Rooney <[email-masked]>, Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:49:06 -0800
List-Id: <speechdrafts.hillaryclinton.com>

Yes, he was! We have not name called him because he wasn't one who made
decision in Flint and we didn't want to make it only about him, but it is
pretty outrageous.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> According to people magazine, Darnell Earley, who just stepped down from
> overseeing the Detroit schools was the city manager in Flint!!
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Ann O'Leary <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> Senior Policy Advisor
>> Hillary for America
>> Cell: 510-717-5518
>>
>
>
>
> --
> *Karen Finney*
> *Senior Adviser for Communications & Political Outreach*
> *Hillary for America*
> [email-masked] <[email-masked]>*
>
>

-- 
Ann O'Leary
Senior Policy Advisor
Hillary for America
Cell: 510-717-5518