This is so poignant. The Daily Line…”Let me be clear. When I talk of survival, I do mean our physical survival. But I also include the survival of principles. After all, physical survival is desirable but it is meaningless without honor.Without striving for and contending for our principles then there can be no ... Read More »
BY JENNIFER CHAMBERS THE DETROIT NEWS Detroit — Aridrinanna Turner gave Detroit Public Schools a chance. Last year, the Detroit mother sent her 6-year-old daughter to the neighborhood DPS elementary school. There, the first-grader shared books with other students, spent every morning waiting for a school bus on a dangerous block and sat in a classroom where the teacher had to buy ... Read More »
By Chastity Pratt Dawsey Detroit Free Press Education Writer School and union leaders from Detroit Public Schools who are often at odds over politics and funding stood shoulder to shoulder today to talk about what they is the tragedy that will occur if voters do not approve a millage renewal on Nov. 6. Proposal S will be on the ballot in Detroit and ... Read More »
By Lori Higgins Detroit Free Press Education Writer Metro Detroit has one of the worst rates of disconnected youths in the nation, according to a national report being released today that shows 17% of youths ages 16-24 are not in school or working. The findings are part of a study by Measure of America, a project of the New York-based Social Science Research Council. Authors ... Read More »
BY JENNIFER CHAMBERS THE DETROIT NEWS Detroit — Attendance has reached nearly 85 percent on the second day of classes at Detroit Public Schools, an unprecedented figure in a city where chronic absenteeism plagues the state’s largest school district. At a news conference Thursday, DPS emergency manager Roy Roberts said 42,516 students were in school Wednesday, out of a projected enrollment of ... Read More »
Roy Roberts, Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager By Amy Lange – bio | email Detroit Public Schools expects a multimillion dollar budget surplus this year. In fact, leaders say there’s enough extra cash to share. Emergency Financial Manager Roy Roberts announced Friday morning bonuses for DPS employees who have sacrificed so much to bring the budget deficit ... Read More »
By Chastity Pratt Dawsey Free Press Education Writer It was a meeting, but it wasn’t. After being denied access to a school to hold a special board meeting, three members of the Detroit school board filed into Douglass Academy today in defiance of a state appointee. After about half an hour waiting in the parking lot for other board members to ... Read More »
By Lori Higgins Detroit Free Press Education Writer They didn’t get a promise to negotiate, but union leaders representing Detroit school employees were encouraged Friday after they say Roy Roberts, the emergency manager for Detroit Public Schools, agreed to look at a proposed process of negotiating. The agreement came after a nearly hour-long meeting Friday afternoon that Roberts had with national, ... Read More »
DETROIT — The state-appointed emergency manager running the Detroit Public Schools imposed a contract Sunday on the district’s teachers, the district has announced. Roy Roberts is empowered by Michigan’s emergency manager law to impose work terms on employees. “This new collective bargaining agreement with our teachers provides the flexibility needed for our schools to be successful and to meet the ... Read More »
The Detroit News- Story By Jennifer Chambers Nearly 1,900 jobs are being slashed at Detroit Public Schools this upcoming school year as the district prepares to launch a new system of schools for a smaller set of students. In its proposed $784 million budget, which begins July 1, DPS is dropping $150.8 million in personnel costs by shedding 1,889 workers, ... Read More »
DETROIT (AP) — Students in the Detroit Public Schools have received $106 million in college scholarships and grants. The district released figures Monday for financial aid going to graduates of its 24 high schools. The district says Cass Technical High School leads the list with $29.6 million. The college preparatory Renaissance High School is next at $16.8 million. Western International ... Read More »
On Sunday June 10, 2012 Cornerstone Schools coupled with The Detroit Zoo, held their First Annual Walk for Cornerstone to raise money to help fund scholarship assistance. More than 400 members of the Cornerstone community participated in the walk at the Detroit Zoo. They couldn’t have been graced with better weather – a sunny 80+ degrees. After the morning festivities came to ... Read More »
Detroit Public Schools officials announced Monday that the Detroit School of Arts will partner with leading civic and cultural institutions as the first in a plan to create 10 self-governing schools that will decide their own academic and financial curricula for the 2012-13 school year. The partnership will put decision-making for the roughly 700-student school in the hands of a ... Read More »
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