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Dearborn teachers press district over building repairs; administration plans ticketing system
Summary
At the April 14 Dearborn Board of Education meeting, a teachers’ representative raised long-standing building-condition concerns and administrators pledged a new tracking system to log and follow repairs; staff described constraints tied to aging infrastructure and seasonal repair windows.
At the April 14 meeting of the Dearborn Board of Education, Kathy Martin, a representative of the Dearborn Federation of Teachers, urged the district to speed repairs for building problems she said teachers have documented and to avoid repeat delays in fixing classrooms and systems.
Martin said she had prepared a slideshow documenting building damage but would withhold it after learning some issues were already being addressed. “I don’t want to be making slideshows of, you know, damage to buildings. I want everything to be great,” Martin said.
Why it matters: teachers and operations staff said building problems — from roof leaks to heating, ventilation and…
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