Federal Judge rules "No fundamental right to literacy"

[Angrboda]

I didn't say they didn't have a funding problem. I said I doubted funding was the biggest problem. Having said that what would you do with additional funds to improve these inner city schools? This whole suite wasn't about a right to literacy. It was about getting more money for the schools. OK, how is getting more money for a school system that is already better funded, despite what detroit-accesstoliteracy.org may claim, than many systems that do better with less going to help? The article I linked earlier sited crumbling infrastructure as a problem. How is new paint on the walls going to help these kids?

The article also said they were short 200 teachers, and having a hard time filling those positions. Higher pay might help to get more teachers, but with a median income of $57,106 teachers in Detroit already earn more than twice the $26,095 median income of the average city resident. Higher salaries aren't going to help much when most teachers simply don't want to work in inner city Detroit schools.

I didn't say they had a funding problem either. What I gleaned from a quick skim of the complaint is that the plaintiffs have issues with the way the state is administrating the schools and the changes to them that have occurred under recent leadership.