'Blowing up the system' -- Roberts confesses
Roy Roberts was told to "blow up and dismantle" Detroit's school system |
Roberts, a former GM exec, who was managing director of the Chicago-based private equity investment firm Reliant Equity Investors,.began his smash-and-grab assault on the schools by throwing out the collective-bargaining agreement and imposing top-down authority, using the power given him by SB4. He announced this week, that he is leaving the district.
Roberts' statement brings to mind the opening line in A Nation at Risk, written 30 years ago as the seminal