{"id":12174,"date":"2013-01-17T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T02:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=12174"},"modified":"2013-01-17T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T02:06:11","slug":"state-of-the-state-snyders-detroit-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/state-of-the-state-snyders-detroit-outreach","title":{"rendered":"State of the State: Snyder&#8217;s Detroit outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit pundits were quick to pounce on Governor Snyder\u2019s apparent snub of Detroit in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upnorthlive.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=848783\">his State of the State remarks<\/a>. True, Snyder steered clear of the city\u2019s financial and criminal crises. No doubt, the state\u2019s sensitive negotiations with the city over a financial manager had something to do with his decision. But a closer look at the speech reveals a governor very much engaged in solving the problems holding Detroiters back. Too bad that Snyder \u2013 like Mitt Romney before him \u2013 doesn\u2019t understand their political value as well.<\/p>\n<p>Both of Snyder\u2019s guests of honor \u2013 young black men standing proud in the visitors\u2019 gallery \u2013 highlighted education and job training initiatives essential to struggling Detroiters.<\/p>\n<p>Snyder introduced young Kenta Roberts, a Detroit student who has benefited from One Tough Nerd\u2019s controversial Education Achievement Authority (EAA), a program set up\u00a0 to isolate \u2013 and address \u2013 Detroit\u2019s lowest-performing schools in order to better prepare their kids for college.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the EAA\u2019s efforts to help Detroit\u2019s most vulnerable children, union-bound Democrats have fiercely resisted its reforms \u2013 including a Detroit school board vote to withdraw from the state-run authority. \u201cI urge every legislator to take the opportunity early this year to visit the EAA schools, talk to students, parents and teachers, and see the transformation,\u201d said Snyder in his address.<\/p>\n<p>The governor \u00a0also introduced Anton Stinson-Winters, an East Detroiter who has benefited from the \u00a0Summer Youth Employment Initiative (SEI)- a state program designed to give underprivileged youth (in this case ages 16 to 19) employment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Both programs are evidence that the ONLY party committed to changing Detroit\u2019s status quo is the GOP. Yet, Republicans like Snyder have been shy to celebrate this fact. From charter schools to EAA innovation, GOPers would go a long way to changing black voters minds about Republicans if they trumpeted the stories of Kenta Roberts and Anton Stimson-Winters<em>every single day<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit pundits were quick to pounce on Governor Snyder\u2019s apparent snub of Detroit in\u00a0his State of the State remarks. True, Snyder steered clear of the city\u2019s financial and criminal crises. No doubt, the state\u2019s sensitive negotiations with the city over a financial manager had something to do with his decision. But a closer look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12175,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions\/12175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}