 The Oakland Press details its meeting with officials from Pontiac Public Schools. You have to love this sequence - I've ellipsed out five paragraphs of analysis as to what's precisely wrong (you'll have to read the article:
It was generally agreed that the paper should report the more positive happenings at the schools, as well as cover financial and other problems the district may have.
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Despite these massive problems, we can put a "positive" spin on what's happening by noting that, first, the difficulty has been discovered and made public.
I love that "spin". And, indeed, sunlight and transparency in government, even on, and especially on problems, is almost always positive until itself. Only known problems have a hope of being solved.
Oakland Politics would note that Pontiac Schools completely and utterly failed to even reply to a FOIA request we filed in August. There was no acknowledgment of our pointing out a failure of teachers to post signs were spelled correctly. Some things are just not worth pursuing legally, but it is indicative of the system. |
