The Christian Science Monitor – Bamzi Banchiri
“The mayor of Detroit is set to tour schools in the district, following rolling teacher strikes and sick-outs that forced more than half of its 100 schools to close on Monday. Mayor Mike Duggan will visit the schools with health and building officials to ascertain the conditions of the schools, after several teachers complained that facilities were infested with rodents and covered with mold. The teachers union, the Detroit Federation of Teachers, has not endorsed the sickout, but its interim president Ivy Bailey has defended the teacher’s actions saying that she understood the frustration they felt, regarding the conditions of the schools.”(more)