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Thursday, April 28, 2011

This Week In Education: Thompson: "Martial Law" In Detroit, Says Rachel Maddow

This Week In Education: Thompson: "Martial Law" In Detroit, Says Rachel Maddow

Thompson: "Martial Law" In Detroit, Says Rachel Maddow

RachelThe Rachel Maddow show recently presented some dramatic footage of a Detroit alternative school for young mothers and their arrest for protesting the school's closure by the Detroit Emergency Manager Robert Bobb. Maddow went to the heart of the matter quoting Bobb about how he drools at the thought of the additional power he has been given to restructure Detroit's schools. Maddow observed, "Power, tastes great, more thrilling - 'I do drool." The main problem, said Maddow is that our corporate-inspired reformers have declared "financial martial law," and