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Grooving the Post- Apocalypse D-Town Style -- School officials steal from poor babies

Paging Dave-o, grist for the growdetroit mill:

Innisfree | Detroit school board criminals...

Detroit school board criminals...
This is fucking disgusting. The Detroit Public schools are a disaster. And this is what the school board finds their money is best spent on?
In all, Detroit Public Schools spent more than $1.3 million for travel, hotels, workshops and catered meals while the district faced the nation's worst school financial crisis, shuttered schools and lost students by the thousands.

District officials said federal, state and local grants paid for nearly all travel and hotel costs.

Government education officials, however, said much of the grant money could have helped students more directly, as in hiring more teachers to reduce class sizes or by purchasing special-education equipment. The district can hire a starting teacher for about $70,000 a year in pay and benefits