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DETROIT Members of
the Wayne County Union of the
Hom luss (NHU) and ap­
proximately 30 of its hoomeless
attended a meeting of the City
Council on Monday February
20.
HU President Wayne Pip­
pin requested that the Council
make vacant, repairab public
housing vailab1e to the Union
to be made habitable. At a prior
meeting with the council, its
President Erma Hender on
promised that NHU would be
m de part of the Homeless
T Force.
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ByFl
Capital ews Service
LANSI G - Too much
"empowerm nt on the wrong
levels can be a dangerous thing,
said state school chief Donald
Bemis.
Bemis. s ate superintendent
of public instruction, cautioned
the Detroi school board on its
recent decision to adopt the
Approximately 1,018 homes
in the Brewster/Douglass
projects are scheduled to b
tom down"
Council took the NHU
proposal under consideration.
Pippin said Henderson told him
Pippin pre ented the mem- that the requests were feasible,
bers of the council with a new but that th Executive Director
id a. He ked that the funds al- of Public Housing Tom Lewis
located for the demolition of the would have to agree as well
Brewster!Douglass Project, on Pippin said the Council u­
Detroit's eastside, be sub- nanimously concurred that at
stituted as wages for the Union's their next meeting with NHU,
skilled laborers to make the -on February 23, Lewis should be
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concep of empowerment.
The school board, even after
makin the decision, still could
not determine a clear definition
of empowerment.
Detroit principals and
teachers reportedJy were con- .
fused over who had the ultimate
power of command. The con­
cept seemed to give auton y
to principals, teachers and
ay
00 few· inmate
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By Came operski
Capital News Service
LANSING - About 6,000 -
only one of every four - of
Michigan's prisoners take time
to educate themselve in free
educational programs offered
by state correctional facilities.
"Part of the problem is lack of
motivation," state Corrections
Director Robert Brown Jr. said.
"I teU our school teachers their
biggest challenge is to motivate
prisoners to want to further
their education."
Brown said most prisoners
need a great deal of education.
"Obvi ously our society and
educators have failed to deal
with these people, to motivate
them, " Brown said ;
Every state correctional
facility offers education I
programs for- inmates seeking a
high school diploma equivalen­
cy (called a G.E.D.), two-year
college degree, or, in rare in­
stances, a four-year degree, d
Tom Goretzka; college coo -
dinator in the Department of
Corrections.
Of the $617 million allocated
for correcti year, some
$15 million funded education 1
programs, Gore aid
• All of our educ tional
programs are employ ent
oriented.
Two hundred and ninety
. \
state-employed teachers from·
community colleges and univer­
sities visit prison classrooms
eight hours daily to instruct
isoners, Goretzka id,
Bruce Courim began wor -
ing in prison educati n 7 years
ago, when he worked as a
teacher in Ionia from 1m to
1976. Since then, he has work d
his way up to principal of the
Muskegon Correctional
Facility.
"Every prison h a different
environment and emphasis on
education" Courim said. " or
some it is a low pri rity nd f r
others, like Mu egon, where
there ar fewwork ignm n ,
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