Tag: Mary Esselman

Explosive Education Achievement Authority exposé pulls back curtain on who profits from expansion: the software vendor

Explosive Education Achievement Authority exposé pulls back curtain on who profits from expansion: the software vendor

Since the beginning of the year, I have been documenting the ongoing travesty of Gov. Rick Snyder’s failed education experiment on Detroit children known as the Education Achievement Authority (EAA). Through exclusive interviews with current and former teachers and administrators, I detailed how the software platform called “BUZZ” was a total disaster from the very first days of the EAA’s […]

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EAA Teacher of the Year on why she quit: “I was compromising my moral integrity and I couldn’t live with myself”

EAA Teacher of the Year on why she quit: “I was compromising my moral integrity and I couldn’t live with myself”

NOTE: There are two comments at the bottom of this interview disparaging both me and the interviewee, former EAA Teacher of the Year Kim Jurczak. One goes by the name “Lyeyname” and the other by “Mypost”. Both comments came from the same IP address meaning that they were made by the same person masquerading as different people to make it […]

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An EAA teacher talks about teachers persevering for Detroit students despite a culture of fear & control

An EAA teacher talks about teachers persevering for Detroit students despite a culture of fear & control

NOTE: My reporting on the Education Achievement Authority involves multiple posts. You can read all of my coverage of the EAA by clicking HERE. In the course of my reporting on Governor Rick Snyder’s Education Achievement Authority (you can read all of the posts HERE), one thing has become abundantly clear: the EAA administration has intentionally created a culture of […]

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