public school system of Detroit, Michigan
Philip Klein of National Review Online documents the pandemic-related flight from traditional public education. The public school system in the United States lost nearly 1.3 million students over the 2020-21…
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller documents disturbing developments from the troubled Detroit school system. A public school teacher in Detroit is upset the federal government is daring to prosecute…
The power of competition is on display in Detroit, where parents have left the Detroit school system for other options. That has forced the Detroit Public School System to do…
One of the worst urban school districts in the United States is making headlines with a head-scratching purchase…and taxpayers are footing the bill. Detroit Public Schools students will have access…
The Education Intelligence Agency lists the 17 most memorable quotes of the last decade. Here are a few of my favorites: “People take money every day for things I would…
A school bus driver for special needs students in the Detroit Public Schools has been charged with propositioning an undercover police officer for sex. From his bus. With kids on…
Gingrich says it all with his opinion piece in the Detroit News. Amazingly the paper also published a picture of the teacher?s union, which is worth a thousand words. I…
Newspapers are fond of doing “list” stories (the most dangerous intersections is a mainstay), but The Detroit News has put an interesting twist on that tradition with its list of…
Detroit schools cancel classes indefinitely Yes, teachers unions are the problem, and Charlotte does not have those. But lack of union labor was also supposed to insulate the South Blvd.…
In recent negotiations, the Detroit Federation of Teachers demanded that the Detroit Public Schools give them salaries comparable to the top 10 percent of teachers in the suburbs, compensation for…
Wake County Schools boast that their 82.2 percent graduation rate was second highest among the nation’s largest school districts. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves – nearly two out of…