Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
Education Authority Chair and Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy S. Roberts was at Mann Elementary to welcome Covington, who later ate lunch with students during his visit at Kettering High.
“As I begin the task of creating a brand new system of schools in Michigan, I want to start by getting a first hand look at the variety of educational services already available in Detroit,” Covington said.
In June Gov. Rick Snyder, Detroit public Schools Emergency Manager Roy Roberts and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan announced plans to dramatically redesign public education in Michigan’s lowest performing schools by including them into a new system that drives vastly more resources directly into their classrooms and offers greater autonomy to help ensure dramatic increases in student achievement.
The Education Achievement Authority is a new statewide school system that will operate the lowest performing five percent of schools in Michigan not achieving satisfactory results on a redesign plan or that are under an emergency manager. It is designed to provide a new, stable, financially responsible set of public schools that create the conditions, supports, tools and resources under which teachers can help students make significant academic gains. It will first apply to underperforming schools in Detroit in the 2012–2013 school year and then be expanded to cover the entire state.
The Educational Achievement Authority Board named Covington as the Chancellor of the Authority in August.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School. Dr. Covington meets with Interim Superintendent for Academics Karen Ridgeway and Mann Principal Gwendolyn Frencher.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Interim Superintendent for Academics Karen Ridgeway talks with students at Mann.
- Mann students eat breakfast.
- A Mann student studying.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Mann students work on Spanish in the library.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
- Michigan Education Achievement Authority Chancellor John Covington began his first day on the job Wednesday by visiting four schools in Detroit, including Detroit Public Schools, Horace Mann Elementary and Kettering High School.
