Career Education

$10 million later, this Detroit career technical center is ‘back into the light’
Detroit

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dual enrollment

Detroit

1 day ago

What Michigan is — and isn’t — doing to boost college attainment this year

Muslim Holiday

Detroit

2 days ago

Detroit school board votes to close schools for Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr

after the final bell

Detroit

2 days ago

Is online gambling a ‘window of opportunity’ for after-school programs in Michigan?

School exodus

Detroit

April 15, 2019

Thousands of Detroit students leave the city every day to go to school. A new study helps explain why.

Teaching & Classroom

Teacher Pay

Detroit

April 12, 2019

State law requires merit pay for teachers, but Detroit teachers union will fight other attempts to pay some more than others

State law requires school districts in Michigan to include merit pay in the compensation system for teachers and administrators.

measuring up

Detroit

April 10, 2019

Teacher evaluation decision goes to Michigan house as deadline looms

The Senate took a step towards temporarily limiting the role of test scores in teacher evaluations. Now it's up to the House.

Detroit

April 8, 2019

Teacher pay in Michigan isn’t just stagnating — it’s declining.

Teacher salaries in Michigan are declining.

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Financial Independence

Detroit

April 11, 2019

After years of state control and oversight, the Detroit school district is on a path toward financial independence

The Detroit school district has been under state control or oversight for much of the last two decades.

State of schools

Detroit

April 10, 2019

Vitti: Some teachers, principals should get performance-based pay for improving achievement

Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti touted district accomplishments and called for extra pay for some teachers and principals in a State of the Schools event Wednesday.

Q & A

Detroit

April 9, 2019

Watch: We asked Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about schools in Michigan. Here’s what she said.

In future years, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she’d like to see a more substantial overhaul to the way Michigan schools are funded.

early childhood

Detroit

April 5, 2019

Gov. Whitmer wants universal pre-K by the end of her four-year term. Will there be enough teachers?

In an interview with Chalkbeat, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer laid out an ambitious timeline for offering preschool to all Michigan four-year-olds.

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.”

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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Think teacher pay is low in Colorado? Try teaching preschool.

Preschool teachers who work in Colorado's district-run schools make far less on average than public elementary teachers.

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Charter networks KIPP and IDEA win big federal grants to fund ambitious growth plans

KIPP is slated to receive $86 million over five years. IDEA, a Texas-based charter network, won an expected $116 million over five years.

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‘It’s basically jail’: Inside NYC’s suspension centers, where there’s bullying, boredom — and sometimes support

According to more than a dozen interviews with students, center staff, and advocates, the suspension centers are dull at best and chaotic at worst.