Review in the name of logic
Add gutsy to the things being said about Connie Calloway, the blunt-talking new superintendent of the Detroit Public Schools. Calloway is boldly asking private donors and foundations to fund an external review of the massive DPS school closure plan.
She wants the review, although her bosses, the DPS board, have already approved the shutdown of 33 schools. It's good that Calloway wants to do the review at no cost to DPS. But it's even better that she's focused on the sorts of logical questions that DPS so clearly ignored.
A smart district would think twice about a move that, among other things, closes academically successful schools, robs some redeveloping neighborhoods of a local school, and sends students who were once bitter rivals into the same building.
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