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Urgent repairs

Crumbling Detroit school buildings will cost $500 million to repair. It’s money the district doesn’t have
Detroit
2 days ago

Enrollment push

Detroit
June 21, 2018

‘The pressure is on everyone’ as Detroit’s main district advertises to attract more students


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Parent voices

Detroit
June 20, 2018

A parent hotline is among fixes promised for special education in Detroit schools

Classroom Lessons

Detroit
June 20, 2018

They saw life inside Detroit classrooms — and now some of them want to teach

Cut off

Detroit
June 19, 2018

Michigan’s third-grade reading law could penalize bilingual programs

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Detroit's future

Coming merger

Detroit
June 18, 2018

‘We all became family.’ Students say goodbye to Detroit school after promising three-year run

The three year-old Mumford Academy will close this week, and merge next fall with the larger Mumford High School.

Uphill battle

Detroit
June 14, 2018

Recruiting when your team is full of ‘detractors’: As the Detroit district searches for talent, most of its employees aren’t on board

Michigan’s largest school district has its share of critics, from lawmakers pushing for school closures to families who…

Looking to Michigan

Detroit
June 14, 2018

Detroit teachers unions won’t be hurt by the Janus decision. They already survived.

Faced with a looming Supreme Court decision that could adversely affect unions, some labor leaders from across the country are looking to Michigan…

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Childcare crisis

Detroit
June 13, 2018

As caregivers struggle to make ends meet, 28,000 Detroit children go without care

The financial demands of providing early education in Michigan have contributed to Detroit’s status as a child care desert.

high stakes

Detroit
June 12, 2018

Are Detroit schools making progress towards state benchmarks? Either way, the stakes are rising

Test results released on Tuesday suggest that 14 Detroit schools are not on track to meet student achievement targets set last year to…

Board's beginning

Detroit
June 12, 2018

Leadership, funding and security dominate discussion in first meeting on school bus loop plan

The mayoral-appointed education commission board held its first meeting Tuesday.

New home

Detroit
June 11, 2018

After a heated battle, the Detroit Prep charter school now owns its ‘forever home’

The Detroit Prep charter school has been trying to buy the former Joyce Elementary School in the city’s Pingree Park neighborhood since last summer but the sale was held up for months by a restriction in the property’s title.

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First Person

Detroit
April 16, 2018

Let’s solve the right problems for Detroit’s students with disabilities — not recycle old ones

I’ve spent 25 years both studying and actively trying to improve schools for students with disabilities. Segregated settings aren't the answer.

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Enrollment push

Detroit
June 21, 2018

‘The pressure is on everyone’ as Detroit’s main district advertises to attract more students

Detroit’s main school district has a new look. Officials announced a new brand for the Detroit Public Schools Community District…

a high-stakes evaluation

National
June 21, 2018

The Gates Foundation bet big on teacher evaluation. The report it commissioned explains how those efforts fell short.

New research commissioned by Gates finds scant evidence that evaluation changes accomplished what they were meant to: improve teacher quality or boost student learning.

D.C.

National
June 21, 2018

What you should know about the White House’s proposal to merge the education department into a new agency

The White House is proposing the federal education department merge with the labor department to form the Department of Education and the Workforce, officials announced…