Tag: EAA

The sad, predictable, outrageous, and infuriating history of the Education Achievement Authority in 127 headlines

The sad, predictable, outrageous, and infuriating history of the Education Achievement Authority in 127 headlines

I have been writing about the Education Achievement Authority since August of 2011 when I first reported on then-Chancellor John Covington’s history at Kansas City schools. The EAA – Gov. Rick Snyder’s failed experiment with Detroit school children – has been a colossal failure rife with scandal, grift, corruption, and utterly terrible “leadership”. The other day as I was looking […]

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BOMBSHELL! Michigan’s Education Achievement Authority in serious trouble, moves to turn at least some schools over to charters (updated)

BOMBSHELL! Michigan’s Education Achievement Authority in serious trouble, moves to turn at least some schools over to charters (updated)

By all appearances, the wheels appear to have all but completely come off the catastrophe that is Michigan’s Education Achievement Authority, Gov. Rick Snyder’s failed experiment on Detroit school children. Following the departure-under-scandal of former EAA Chancellor John Covington, the new Chancellor Veronica Conforme set out to poach students from neighboring districts using deceptive letters sent to the community. She […]

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Taint of corruption still defines Michigan’s Education Achievement Authority

Taint of corruption still defines Michigan’s Education Achievement Authority

Some terrific reporting by John Wisely and Ann Zaniewski of the Detroit Free Press shows that Gov. Snyder’s failed experiment on Detroit school children, the Education Achievement Authority, is still a place where corruption is still a big problem. After former EAA Chancellor John Covington left under a cloud of scandal and corruption, Veronica Conforme was brought in to set […]

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Michigan’s Emergency Managers were supposed to fix corruption and ineptitude. They haven’t.

Michigan’s Emergency Managers were supposed to fix corruption and ineptitude. They haven’t.

The primary justification for Emergency Financial Managers or Emergency Managers in Michigan from the very earliest iterations (and continuing through to today) is that some cities and school districts were just too full of corruption and ineptitude and that the state needed to swoop in and save the day. However, this easy answer has turned out not have been the […]

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DENIED: Former EAA chief John Covington eliminated from consideration for Director of Metro Nashville Public Schools

DENIED: Former EAA chief John Covington eliminated from consideration for Director of Metro Nashville Public Schools

Former Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington is out of the running to head up the Metro Nashville Public Schools. After being selected as one of the final four candidates by a search firm with ties to the Broad Foundation and that has promoted him in the past, Covington’s history of failing school districts and then leaving abruptly led to […]

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UPDATED: How is former EAA chief John Covington still being considered to run schools? Two words: Broad Foundation

UPDATED: How is former EAA chief John Covington still being considered to run schools? Two words: Broad Foundation

This post has been updated below. Former Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington has left a trail of scandal and disarray in both Kansas City and Detroit after abruptly quitting leadership positions in both cities. Yet, over the past week, we’ve learned that he’s in the final four being considered to head up the Metro Nashville Public Schools. Once Nashville […]

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Teachers union wants its money back from search firm who chose former EAA chief Covington as finalist to run district

Teachers union wants its money back from search firm who chose former EAA chief Covington as finalist to run district

This is getting comical As I have been writing about for the past week, Metro Nashville Public Schools is looking for a new director to run its school district. They hired Hazard Young Attea & Associates, a search firm, to interview candidates and present them with four finalists. One of those four finalists was none other than disgraced former Education […]

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UPDATED: Nashville school board members discover the truth about former EAA chief John Covington and are NOT pleased

UPDATED: Nashville school board members discover the truth about former EAA chief John Covington and are NOT pleased

Monday night I wrote about how former Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington is one of four finalist to run a the Metro Nashville Public Schools. The fact that he made it that far is puzzling considering that he left his two previous leadship jobs abruptly and without warning. In Kansas City, the district he ran lost their accreditation shortly […]

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Former Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington still looking for a school district to run

Former Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington still looking for a school district to run

When John Covington bailed out of the Education Achievement Authority shortly after spending irregularities and a host of other problems were making news, he said it was to care for his ailing mother. However, soon after he left, he formed a company called the National Institute for Student-Centered Teaching and Learning. After that, he threw his hat into the ring […]

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CONFIRMED: Education Achievement Authority cheating teachers out of incentive pay

CONFIRMED: Education Achievement Authority cheating teachers out of incentive pay

Earlier this month, in an exclusive report here at Eclectablog, I reported that teachers in the Education Achievement Authority (EAA) were not receiving Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) payments as promised. The “District for Wayward Schools” had received millions of dollars in TIF grants from the federal government – $11.5 million over three years – to give teachers financial incentives for […]

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There was a 3rd SCOTUS decision this week progressives should be thrilled with, one with implications for Michigan

There was a 3rd SCOTUS decision this week progressives should be thrilled with, one with implications for Michigan

As the celebrations over the U.S. Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell (which upheld the Affordable Care Act [again]) and their decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (which found same-sex marriage bans to be unconstitutional) begin settle down, it’s worth looking at a third case they decided this week that should have progressives applauding. This one, Texas Department of Housing […]

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