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Eastern Michigan faculty side with teachers' unions, refuse to work in Detroit schools

Emergency manager Roy Roberts

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BY DAVID JESSE ANDCHASTITY PRATT DAWSEY

DETROIT FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITERS

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As Eastern Michigan University's Board of Regents voted Tuesday to take part in a new school district to reform Michigan's worst performing schools, faculty leaders promised not to do any work in Detroit that might help bust union contracts.

Detroit Public Schools emergency manager Roy Roberts would lead the new district, called the Education Achievement System, or EAS. And he has the power to nullify or change union contracts -- a sore point.

EMU President Susan Martin said no faculty would be assigned to any work in a school in Detroit. But union leaders were skeptical, saying Monday's announcements appeared to pledge faculty involvement to help turn around Michigan's failing schools, starting