Broken Promise (Choices)

Nadia Dolphus and her grandmother Judy Cross. Like desks and books and a lot of materials and stuff. Judy lives with her daughter and grandkids in a wooden bungalow, a house style that was popular when working class residents started moving into the neighborhood.

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My husband used to take the grill over there and grill for them for field day. Now that the school across the street is closed, she drives her grandkids to school in the suburbs. Judy loved her time at Hubert Elementary. She says some of the teachers even used to use her front porch for smoke breaks.

So the district decided to close it. When a school closes, property values go down, crime often goes up and families move out. And the death of the neighborhood school is by no means unique to Brightmoor. Nearly DPS schools around the city have closed since So, how did Detroit end up with so many closed schools and emptied out neighborhoods? We'll answer that, but first, here's some context. Chastity Pratt-Dawsey is a reporter for Bridge Magazine. But back in , when the closures were ramping up, she was an education reporter for the Detroit Free Press and had a front-row seat to what was going on in the district.

You had 30 school closures and you also had the archdiocese closed 17 schools in Detroit. That was just like a watershed moment, being in the trenches as a reporter, thinking wow, this is gonna get bad, bad, bad and nobody could have known it was going to get this intense.

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Schools were closing like rapid-fire, and students and families left in droves. By , the district was losing 10, students a year. Actually, it's dropped even lower than that now. At the end of last year, there were fewer than 47, students in Detroit Public Schools Community District. More kids in Detroit now go to charter schools than traditional public schools. Well, the state passed two laws in the s that were supposed to give parents more options for where to send their kids to school.

Under these laws, parents could send their kids to schools outside of their district, and charters were allowed to open up, with very little oversight. Pretty much anyone who had the money could open a charter. On the surface, these two things might not seem like a big deal.

But in reality they completely changed the academic landscape in Detroit. Still, Detroit parents were fed up. They wanted better for their kids and now they had choices. So they started pulling their kids out of DPS and putting them in charters or leaving the district entirely. And each time a student left, their state funding went with them.

And that's when Republican Governor John Engler stepped in.

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Engler says to Detroit: That was back in , and up until this January, the state has been in charge of Detroit Public Schools pretty much ever since. They dismantled their school system. When Massachusetts kids were struggling, they enacted a slew of reforms including more money for low-income schools, tougher standards for all kids, and strict oversight for charters. Parents, like Dawn Wilson, would argue the state takeover and all the reforms made things worse.

Most of the schools in Brightmoor, where she lives, are either closed or very low-performing.

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Wilson remembers when this neighborhood was still thriving. And the schools were a big part of that. Credit Courtesy of Dawn Wilson.

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Wilson works as a clown at birthday parties all over the Detroit area. When he took power, McGuinty faced a difficult choice. He could either keep his promise and let the health-care system and other government services slide further after years of major cuts under the Conservatives. Or he could break his promise and impose the tax, which would allow the province to start restoring services, cutting wait times and improving access across the health-care system. Promising in not to raise taxes may have been a foolish move by McGuinty, who was desperate to win votes.

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But he made the right decision when he imposed the health premium, in effect a tax. It has allowed Queen's Park to make major improvements to the health-care system, while putting the province back on a sound financial footing. McGuinty also has made the right decision by delaying the closure of coal-fired electricity plants until , although it has meant breaking another key promise from the last election. With no significant new sources of power coming on stream and with conservation efforts by individuals and businesses too small to fill the void, it became painfully obvious there was no realistic way the province could take the heavy greenhouse gas polluters out of Ontario's energy mix by Now, both the Liberals and NDP are promising to mothball all coal plants by The Conservatives say they will continue to rely on coal-fired plants until they can replace that power, but will install scrubbers in the meantime to reduce air pollution.

Besides taxes and coal plants, the Conservatives and New Democrats cite a litany of other "broken promises. Others are promises the Liberals have made some headway on but not yet fully implemented, including capping class sizes in the early grades and hiring 8, new nurses. Given more time and money, there is no reason why the Liberals could not deliver on these pledges.

Obviously, McGuinty knows he is vulnerable on the "broken promises" issue and has not shied away from it. But there are also signs he has learned some lessons from his four years in power.

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Under pressure from a Tory election promise to repeal the health tax, McGuinty has said the province could not afford to axe it any time soon and argued the government needs "every single penny of that premium. Despite improvements, work remains to be done on the health system. Overall, it is true McGuinty broke some promises.