Recruiting Students

As the new school year quickly approaches, schools in Detroit make final push to enroll students
Detroit

19 hours ago

Leadership & Management

Detroit

2 days ago

Q&A with Detroit schools chief Vitti: ‘Some doors … are opening up to what DPSCD can do.’

students speak out

Detroit

August 19, 2019

Come hear six Detroit students as they take the stage Friday to share their school experiences

new schools

Detroit

August 15, 2019

Q&A: This charter school leader says his company’s new school will ‘be better’ than the neighboring district

Boosting Fine Arts

Detroit

August 14, 2019

Amid arts push, Detroit schools want your old tubas, trumpets, and more

Teaching & Classroom

Name Changes?

Detroit

August 12, 2019

A struggling school hitches its future to a popular president by changing its name to honor Barack Obama

A low-performing Detroit charter school is changing its name to honor former President Barack Obama, and adding a new program to encourage student leadership.

Choosing Schools

Detroit

August 6, 2019

Detroit commission publishes new parent guide to city schools. But parents will have to wait for academic info.

A guide produced by Mayor Mike Duggan's education commission provides parents with useful information about city schools, though they'll have to wait for academic info.

Teach for America

Detroit

August 2, 2019

For the first time, Detroit’s Teach for America teachers have been trained locally

Teach for America has trained 33 teachers in Detroit this summer. All of them will be placed into Detroit classrooms in the fall.

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grading schools

Detroit

August 13, 2019

State officials: No A-F letter grades for Michigan schools by Sept. 1

A new law requires the Michigan Department of Education to issue letter grades by Sept. 1, but that isn't going to happen, officials say.

shrinking profession

Detroit

August 8, 2019

Amid a literacy crisis, Michigan’s school librarians have all but disappeared

As Michigan grapples with low reading scores, school librarians have become an endangered species in the state.

staffing up

Detroit

August 7, 2019

Report: As Michigan increases its reliance on long-term substitute teachers, Detroit is moving in the other direction

A Bridge Magazine analysis found that the number of long-term substitutes working in Michigan schools has risen tenfold in the last five years.

early arts

Detroit

August 5, 2019

Inside 45 minutes of Detroit fun: How artists are helping toddlers dance from home care into kindergarten

The Living Arts Detroit Wolf Trap program is now bringing professional artists into in-home child care programs in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood.

Moving Costs

moving forward

Detroit

November 16, 2018

Frequent school changes are hurting students. Here’s how Detroit’s educators want to fix the problem.

As Detroit education leaders gathered Thursday night to find solutions to the problem of students frequently changing schools, it was clear that the…

Finding solutions

Detroit

November 7, 2018

Forum to seek solutions to Detroit’s problems with frequent school moves

The discussion, 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 15 at the main branch of the Detroit Public Library at 5201 Woodward, will be recorded and later aired on WDET's “Detroit Today” and DPTV's “American Black Journal.”

Student & School Performance

Detroit

October 10, 2018

Enrollment instability is a major reason why schools are struggling — so why isn’t anyone tracking the problem?

A Milwaukee newspaper that surveyed the education departments in all 50 states found that half don’t collect or post data on students hopping around. And of states that do collect the data, the numbers they collect are so inconsistent that making state-to-state comparisons is nearly impossible.

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