Does Detroit now have a truth-telling superintendant? Absent abolition, socialism can’t be fixed, and neither can the looting of the taxpayer that charactierizes all public schools, but still… “And she confirmed that the district’s budget is about the same as it was eight years ago, even though the number of employees and students has dropped by a third. In 2000, the district spent $1.2 billion to pay 21,203 employees to serve 154,648 students. Last school year, the district spent the same amount of money to pay 15,535 employees and serve 105,000 students.”