Covington will receive a salary of $225,000, plus a $175,000 signing bonus. In addition, he is reportedly eligible to garner performance-based incentives that could push his payoff to more than $1.5 million a year. This grotesque sum—paid by state, private foundation and corporate sources—is being given to a man who will oversee schools in an impoverished district where the median household income is $26,000 and students are so poor they all get free breakfast and lunch.
His main task is to destroy the jobs, workplace protections and living standards of teachers and other public school employees who have lost tens of thousands of dollars in wage and benefit concessions over the last decade. In doing so, he is counting on the continued collaboration of the Detroit Federation of Teachers and other unions.
Covington will head the EAS (Education Achievement System), created last June by the Republican governor—a former venture capitalist and computer corporation executive—and Emergency Financial Manager Roy Roberts—a former General Motors executive. The purpose of the plan is to further dismantle the public school system and hand over its assets to privately run charter corporations.
Of course it will be a disaster, but these "reformers" don't care about schools or kids. It's all about money for them.
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