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To: Brumar89 who wrote (833737)	2/1/2015 2:28:26 PM
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Detroit spent 33 MILLION dollars on a state of the art television recording studio so that kids can be taught the ropes about broadcasting. Not ONE DAY was the studio opened for learning. Not one. It’s been ten years since they bought the equipment. Now it requires about half a million to bring it up to today’s technology. Read more at http://iotwreport.com/?p=272737#6AVozpvqIUvIcT1B.99 Detroit and it's PS system is run by Dems. What would you expect? DPS's $33 million television studios unused after a decade World-class studios opened in 2005 Ross Jones, Johnny Sartin , Randy Lundquist DETROIT (WXYZ) - 10 years ago and $33 million later, Detroit Public Schools opened two state of the art television studios that were touted as some of the best in the world. They would be used, officials said, to give students a world-class education in broadcasting. A decade later, not a single student has used them. Not in 2009, when officials first promised 7 Action News that the four-year-old facility would be operational, and not since. The Detroit School of Arts was opened to much fanfare in 2005, featuring television studios that would be the envy of even television networks. No expense spared Even though the district was bleeding money and students at the time of the school's opening, then DPS Superintendent Kenneth Burnley spared no expense in constructing the studios. DPS paid premium prices for items like 8 high-definition studio cameras that cost nearly $200,000 each, video switchers in two control rooms that ran at least $700,000 a piece and a lighting grid that cost about $1 million. Students who use the school today say they know the equipment's inside, they're just not allowed to go near it. "They never talked about it," said freshman Dayjanae Baker. "It's just a side of the school that we don't use. But we know it's there." "It not only embarrasses me," said Jonathan Kinloch, a DPS board member until December, "but it also angers me that someone constructed a school for the purpose of educating kids and they actually aren’t." Promise broken In 2009, Channel 7's Steve Wilson and Ross Jones started asking questions about the darkened studios. Officials then blamed their predecessors, saying the studios were built without a curriculum, the equipment was too sophisticated and they didn’t have the money to train instructors. They promised us back then that students would be using the equipment in just a few weeks. "We’re solving a lot of problems in this school district in one and two days time that used to take seven months and seven years to solve," boasted Asst. Superintendent Steve Wasko. "As you know, it’s a new day in town with Detroit Public Schools." But it wasn't. The district would see three emergency managers come and go--Robert Bobb, Roy Roberts and Jack Martin--and the studios remain locked up. Wasko is still with DPS, but is no longer in charge of getting the studios running. In the closing weeks of his term as emergency manager, Jack Martin insisted progress was being made. "Can you promise that a year from now," asked Channel 7's Ross Jones, "the studios will be up and running, the equipment will be functional, students can finally take advantage of this?" "I could not make that promise," Martin said, "but when I can promise you is that all of the programming at DSA will be enhanced and that the kids at DSA will get a media arts (education)." Suddenly, progress Only weeks after that interview, and a decade since DSA opened its doors, progress finally started to happen. Our cameras were there when volunteers from Detroit Public TV worked to get the equipment up and running. The smaller of two studios is nearly functional, officials say, but the much larger one, and its multi-million dollar control room, has no plans to be used in the near future. Officials say it needs much more work. As soon as next month, says a district spokeswoman, students could finally begin to use the smaller studio. And this time, she insists, they mean it. See the full report tonight on 7 Action News at 6. Contact 7 Investigator Ross Jones at rjones@wxyz.com or at (248) 827-9466. http://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/dpss-33-million-television-studios-unused-after-a-decade