Quotable:
"They could have took this test in French and done just as bad...No other city in the history of [NAEP] has done this bad."
-Tonya Allen, Founding Member of the Detroit Parent Network
"Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores," The Detroit News
Notable:
$400 Million:
Amount that would be allocated, under a proposal currently moving through Congress, to merit pay programs in U.S. public schools. This figure would represent a quadrupling of the current federal funding for such programs.
"Performance pay funding for teachers may increase," Washington Post