Newt Gingrich: "Detroit is a Disaster"

Gingrich calls Detroit a disaster, draws ire

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich drew strong criticism from Detroit city leaders and school officials Monday after calling the city a "disaster" in a national network TV interview on Sunday.

Gingrich blasted the city of Detroit, Detroit Public Schools, the United Auto Workers and Michigan's unemployment rate during an interview on Fox News Sunday in which he talked about how he would transform Washington.

A spokesman for Gingrich, an undeclared Republican presidential candidate who has been ramping up his public appearances, singled out Detroit and its schools because they're the "best worst-case example" of bureaucracy and "a union structure that doesn't work."

"We should basically, fundamentally replace the Detroit school system with a series of experiments to see if they'll work," Gingrich said in the interview.

"Detroit is routinely pointed out as one of the worst public school systems in the entire country," Tyler said. "It provides the best example of why we need transformational change in bureaucratic systems that don't work."

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Womack and other Detroit Public Schools' officials vigorously disputed Gingrich's comments about the school system's graduation rate, which he said was 22 percent, a statistic recently released by Education Week magazine. According to the Michigan Department of Education, Detroit Public Schools has a graduation rate of 67.2 percent, though a 2005 Detroit News analysis put that number at 48 percent. (No Matter how you cut it any one of those numbers is utterly shameful.)

Monica Conyers, the council's president pro tem, acknowledged that Detroit Public Schools' graduation rate is too low, but she doubted Gingrich knows much about the true graduation rate in the school system or the city's progress. (Day all bee lyin' en sheeit...ALL OF EM)

"Detroit is on an upswing," she said. "I would invite Newt Gingrich to come here." Conyers said she would give Gingrich a personal tour of the city. (Detroit is on an upswing? Detroit's been on an upswing for the last 40 years...slowest goddamn swing I've ever seen)

"I wish people who haven't been here would refrain from attacking us," she said. (Typical Nigger response to criticism..."Yall don't even know". Why can't they just face facts and stop LYING about how great things are? I know why...it's because they've created it and to face facts would be like admitting YOU fucked things up horribly. Niggers will never admit they're just stupid niggers that don't know what the fuck is going on.)

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