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posted by martyb on Friday July 28 2017, @04:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-work-and-no-pay dept.

Furious teachers at a recently shuttered Detroit charter school were notified Wednesday that they won't be paid thousands of dollars they earned during the last school year.

"Last Friday, Matchbook Learning became aware that the holders of MTA's outstanding bond debt are refusing to allow use of funds for any summer payroll and instead, are requiring that any available funds be used toward payment of the bond debt," Matchbook's CEO Sajan George told teachers in the email. "We are disappointed and deeply saddened by this development because this means funds will not be there for July or August payroll."

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Saturday July 29 2017, @01:25PM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Saturday July 29 2017, @01:25PM (#546239)

    If it was successful, why were the whites fleeing?

    Because of racism. The "white flight" phenomenon was part of a backlash to the Civil Rights Movement. In particular, white parents moved to the suburbs so that bussing wouldn't make it so their kids had to go to school with black kids. Race riots of the late 1960's and early 1970's also played a major role in convincing white people to leave cities, and government policies of that period made it relatively easy for white people to get a nice house in the suburbs while black people were pretty much forced into renting in the inner city.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday July 29 2017, @02:03PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 29 2017, @02:03PM (#546251)

    Because of racism.

    Doesn't sound too realistic. Every burb refugee, a klansman? Looking at the media of the time, the non-racists were holier than thou at the time. No, seems very unlikely.

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday July 29 2017, @02:29PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Saturday July 29 2017, @02:29PM (#546262)

      There were and still are lots of forms of racism that have absolutely nothing to do with the Klan or threats of overt violence and terrorism practiced by the Klan.

      It's well-documented in cities like Boston that efforts to racially integrate schools led to widespread protest and even riots in the late 1960's through mid-1970's. It's easy to find photos with white people holding signs like "We won't go to school with Negroes" and "The whites have rights too" in response to school desegregation programs. And then typically after big protests, the trend of white people moving out of the city accelerated.

      The government policies I referred to include a great deal done by the Federal Housing Authority [npr.org]. Basically, the FHA throughout most of the 20th century helped white families buy nice homes in the suburbs, made it near-impossible for black families to buy homes, and also made it difficult for white families to buy homes in the inner city. This also had the effect of reducing the property value of any home a white person already had in the city, encouraging them to move out.

      The first generation of Americans to grow up in an environment where open racism was not considered completely normal and socially acceptable are under the age of 40 today.

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