Duggan seeks state partner on ‘Ultimate challenge’ facing Detroit schools
Source: Detroit News
Mayor Mike Duggan said Tuesday he hopes the state will be a full partner on a developing plan for delivering student services in Detroit public schools, suggesting it could be “one of the greatest government redesigns Michigan has seen.”
In a talk to more than 400 state employees in Lansing, Duggan sketched the outlines of a “community schools” model that would see a single government entity provide student assistance that would otherwise be the responsibility of various agencies at the city, state or federal levels.
Calling it an “ultimate challenge” that must be faced, Duggan said Detroit teachers “are dealing with children who have no heated home, who haven’t had their clothes cleaned in a week and who may be hungry.”
“They have a whole range of problems” that might be addressed by multiple government and nonprofit agencies, but “the people who have to navigate these bureaucracies are the people who are least able to do it,” he continued.
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