DPS Board Files Federal Lawsuit Against Snyder and Other Officials

DPS school board sues state, EMs on students’ behalf

The Detroit Public Schools board, left out of decision-making in the state’s largest district for the past seven years, struck back Thursday by filing a class action lawsuit against Gov. Rick Snyder and other officials over poor financial, academic and building conditions.

Thomas H. Bleakley, an attorney for the school board, described conditions in DPS as “the Flint water crisis on steroids” during a press conference at the Fisher Building.

The students represented in the class action lawsuit are described as the “impoverished children among the 58,000 more or less students of DPS [[including those enrolled in EAA schools) who, from 2011 to the present have experienced and will continue to experience permanent damage caused by willful and callous indifference to their education needs.”

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