XXII EAA Applies for Federal TIF grants & Sits On Money September 2012 – June 30, 2015
SUMMARY
The EAA competed for, and won a grant in September, 2012, which it has not utilized.
DETAILS
On June 30, 2015, a Education Achievement Authority spokesman said the EAA had not spent the money it
received through the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) program — a figure federal officials say tops $11.5 million
over three years.
The EAA seized DPS property and created the EAA with a promise to rapidly bring the lowest-performing
schools in the Detroit Public Schools up to speed. Governor Snyder gave poorest children in the nation with the
greatest challenges an experimental school district where 50% of their teachers had less than one year of
experience, and about half of those were Teach for America teachers who received six weeks of training. Now
we understand the EAA applied for funds that could have gone to DPS, and sat on the money.
The June 30, 2015 Eclectoblog writes:
This one more piece of evidence that Gov. Snyder’s failed experiment on Detroit school
children is inept and designed to fail. After several years of state takeover of the Detroit Public
Schools, these kids are no farther ahead than they were when the EAA was created. Several
people and corporations have enriched themselves in the process, of course, including Agilix
that got free beta testing of their “teach by computer” BUZZ software.
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