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Uphill battle

Recruiting when your team is full of ‘detractors’: As the Detroit district searches for talent, most of its employees aren’t on board
Detroit
June 14, 2018

Childcare crisis

Detroit
June 13, 2018

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


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Looking to Michigan

Detroit
June 14, 2018

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

high stakes

Detroit
June 12, 2018

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

Board's beginning

Detroit
June 12, 2018

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

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Detroit's future

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.

Seats at the table

Detroit
June 11, 2018

Meet the 11 people charged with helping Detroit’s district and charter schools work together, starting with a new bus loop

A mayoral commission designed to bring competitive district and charter schools together began to take shape on Monday. Speaking before television…

national spotlight

Detroit
June 8, 2018

In contentious interview, Betsy DeVos’ husband Dick DeVos says ‘everybody wins’ with charter schools

The documentary features a somewhat combative interview with DeVos’ husband, Dick DeVos, on the effects that charter schools have had on education in Michigan.

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Charter Churn

Detroit
June 7, 2018

‘Winging it.’ This principal just lost his job at a struggling Detroit charter school. Here’s what he saw on the inside.

Frank Donner was sold from the moment he heard the pitch in 2013. Lighthouse Academies promised that their new school in…

troubled water?

Detroit
June 6, 2018

Detroit district tests drinking water after lead or copper discovered in 6 schools

Water will be tested for lead and other toxins in 106 Detroit district schoools

Charter Churn

Detroit
June 5, 2018

Founded with great promise, this charter school is now looking for its fifth principal in five years

Parents are running out of fingers to count the principals at Southwest Detroit Community School. Four different principals have left since…

Rapper approved

Detroit
June 4, 2018

Determined to fill schools, Detroit district turns to a celebrity endorsement from Big Sean

Rapper Big Sean has agreed to take part in a campaign to boost enrollment in the main Detroit school district, school officials said…

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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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mind the gap

National
3 days ago

In female-dominated education field, women still lag behind in pay, according to two new studies

Two new studies illustrate how even the education field — a female-dominated one where many salaries aren’t open to negotiation — isn’t immune to the gender pay gap.

a different model

Colorado
3 days ago

Denver expands its experiment with more autonomous ‘innovation zones’

Innovation zones represent a different way of managing schools that is somewhere between the traditional approach and that of charter schools.

Redefining STEM

Indiana
June 15, 2018

‘It’s OK to fail:’ How Indiana teachers are rethinking STEM for the real world

In Kraig Kitts’ biology classes, it’s OK to fail. “That’s science. That’s the nature of it,” said Kitts, a science teacher…