Data shows data always will show EAA improving

Time to pay attention again to the EAA as The Detroit News and their EAA pr agent Jennifer Chambers is ramping up coverage.

This morning the paper provided two missives, both addressing violence in the schools. Followers of education reform in Michigan and elsewhere won't be surprised to hear that the "data" shows the "data" on violence is improving.

We aren't surprised at this because we now have firm data that data on the EAA always will show the EAA improving! In fact, data never shows anything but improvement and success at the EAA, hence the wonder of data! That the data comes from the EAA which makes even the Michigan state Senate request Freedom of Information Acts to get data is well......

Here is a link to Ms. Chamber's story where she again misrepresents the EAA as a "statewide" district.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131008/SCHOOLS/310080036/EAA-schools-get-tough-gangs-Detroit?od...

The EAA codification bill, HB4369, linked here as pdf -- http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2013-2014/billanalysis/House/pdf/2013-HLA-4369-1B170A8D.pdf -- has been stuck in the Senate since last April when the House passed it along.

Since that time, of course, the EAA ran in to political trouble and such legislation had to be slowed way down.

Amongst other things, the EAA forced State Senators to request Freedom of Information Acts to get available information. In general, Senators don't like it when one of their colleagues -- of either party -- is forced to resort to such tactics.

The Governor has said publicly at the Detroit "Techonomy" Conference that the EAA was "never intended" to be a statewide District and quite visibly seemed reluctant to sing the praises of John Covington, the "Chancellor" when more or less invited by his host.

Still, the EAA is the centerpiece of the Governor's "reform" plan in Michigan.

Without the EAA to take over "struggling" Districts like Pontiac he knew politically influential Districts like Birmingham and Bloomfield would balk when their neighbors went down and threatened their Districts.

Stay tuned. State Treasurer Andy Dillon -- whose own bad PR contributed to the legislative slow down in the spring -- is scheduled to appoint a 750k per two years "consultant' to Pontiac within the next two weeks. If The Detroit News is championing the EAA a couple weeks in advance they might have a reason.