Detroit

measuring progress

Fixing Detroit’s schools won’t happen overnight. Here’s what new Superintendent Nikolai Vitti says he can do by next year.
Detroit

12 hours ago

Week In Review

Detroit

September 15, 2017

Week in review: A ‘poor choice of words’ from the state schools boss, Grosse Pointe considers lightening up

Against the odds

Detroit

September 11, 2017

‘Possible, but daunting’: Inside Nikolai Vitti’s early effort to transform Detroit’s battered public schools

Detroit Prep

Detroit

September 8, 2017

The plot (to buy a Detroit school building) thickens: Efforts to keep sold property from housing charter schools might have become illegal

Week In Review

Detroit

September 8, 2017

Week in review: Charter wars ramp up as kids return to school

Detroit's future

Back to class

Detroit

September 5, 2017

On Detroit’s first day of class, unusual staffing problems hobble some schools and draw parent protests

On the first day of school, Detroit’s main district was dealing complications related to its merger with a defunct state-run recovery district and was scrambling to fill 250 teaching jobs.

Detroit

September 5, 2017

As Detroit students head back to school, here’s 6 stories for an informed start to the school year

As teachers open their classroom doors in Detroit, a new superintendent and a newly elected school board mark a fresh start to the school year.

Keeping score

Detroit

August 29, 2017

Some M-STEP scores are up slightly in Detroit and across the state — but reading scores were ‘disappointing.’ Look up your school’s scores here

The 2017 M-STEP scores, released Tuesday by the Michigan Department of Education, show that the vast majority of Detroit students are still struggling.

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Confusion and uncertainty

Detroit

September 7, 2017

Confusion spikes as a popular charter school seeks to buy an empty Detroit school building

Restrictions on how to use a vacant Detroit school building and a murky process for purchasing them makes a tough road even more difficult.

Week In Review

Detroit

September 1, 2017

Week in review: What last year’s test scores tell us as a new school year begins

It’s hard to feel hopeful when fewer than half of third-graders are proficient in English but a new school year means a fresh start.

Detroit week in review

Detroit

August 25, 2017

Week in review: Vittis take center stage as they encourage parents to help improve Detroit schools

Schools chief starts the process of setting a new strategy for Detroit schools

with interest

Detroit

August 22, 2017

Closed charter school using private funds to issue unpaid teachers their summer paychecks

Michigan Technical Academy teachers will be paid overdue summer paychecks with interest by Wednesday.

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National

14 hours ago

The rise of tax credits: How Arizona created an alternative to school vouchers — and why they’re spreading

With its adoption of a tax credit scholarship program, Illinois became the 18th state to endorse an innocuously named policy that critics have described as a “backdoor voucher.”

that was weird

National

1 day ago

The D.C. school system had a pitch-perfect response after John Oliver made #DCPublicSchools trend on Twitter

The hashtag was officially trending less than a minute after Oliver urged viewers of the Emmys to use it.

approaching deadline

New York

1 day ago

In year three of New York City’s massive school turnaround program, the big question is: What’s next?

“Lots of people are experiencing it as the last of the three years.”