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Faculty fight university’s link to controversial school turnaround district

Faculty fight university’s link to controversial school turnaround district:

Faculty fight university’s link to controversial school turnaround district

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder  (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Professors at Eastern Michigan University are fighting to end the school’s connection to a highly controversial state school takeover district created by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. The faculty members argue that they had no input in the way the Education Achievement Authority is run and that they oppose the way the EEA is being operated.
The EAA, one of a number of reforms pioneered by Snyder, was created in 2011 to take over and run schools whose