Trying to teach in DPS amid decay: 'It's a travesty'
Temperatures outside are in the 20s, but the windows in the principal’s office at Detroit Institute of Technology Preparatory High School are cracked open and two fans are running to keep the indoor temperature from reaching 90 degrees.
Fifteen ceiling tiles are missing over the head of Principal Latoya Hall-King as she explains that her side of the building must tolerate desert heat to keep the other side of the building from freezing in the January air.
"We have a boiler that needs to be fixed," Hall-King said. "But it's very expensive with a cash-strapped district."
Hall-King was hosting Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who visited Detroit today for a meeting and toured the school to see first-hand some of the conditions that have prompted teachers across Detroit to call in sick in recent days, forcing more than 70 schools to close.Trying to teach in DPS amid decay: 'It's a travesty':
