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WDIV ClickOnDetroit
January 6, 2018
LANSING, Mich. - For the second time this week, a Michigan Lottery player is waking up to a lifetime of cash after winning $25,000 a year for life playing Lucky For Life. A ticket bought at the Mobil gas station, located at 40610 Woodward Avenue in Bloomfield Hills, matched the five white balls drawnÃÂ ...
WJCT NEWS
January 6, 2018
Sand's analysis says Detroit needs these things: better public education, better access to transportation, and programs that foster entrepreneurship in the neighborhoods. None of those things is a quick fix. “It's taken six decades to decline to the point where we are today,” he said. “It's not going to be fixed in the next threeÃÂ ...
WDIV ClickOnDetroit
January 6, 2018
More than $1 billion is up for grabs this weekend in the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots. Friday's $450 million jackpot is the fourth-largest Mega Millions jackpot and the 13th largest U.S. lottery jackpot. The cash option for Friday's jackpot is about $281 million. If a Michigan player win's Friday's $450ÃÂ ...
Traverse City Record Eagle
December 27, 2017
In Detroit, the majority of special education students are enrolled in the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD), with a particularly high share of students requiring the most costly services. Additionally, research by the Center on Reinventing Public Education shows that many parents of studentsÃÂ ...
Detroit Free Press
December 22, 2017
The Detroit Public Schools Community District is well into its second school year and has new board and superintendent. ... Everyone in the public education sector in Detroit needs to study those “beat the odds” schools, whether DPSCD or charter, that perform the best and share their strategies andÃÂ ...
The Detroit News
December 20, 2017
Public education in Detroit is a mess. In a new national study, Detroit emerged as one of the nation's worst big cities, with district eighth-graders performing at a fifth-grade level, on average. Even charter schools, which enroll the majority of public school students, lag behind those of many cities. Though weÃÂ ...
The Detroit News
December 20, 2017
Those of us committed to improving the quality of education for all students in Michigan should stop debating the relative performance of traditional districts and charter schools. We miss the forest for the trees by the endless back and forth over who looks a few points better in which study. The pertinentÃÂ ...
Detroit Free Press
December 31, 1999
Failing schools got a reprieve from closure. The Detroit school district got new leadership. A polarizing Michigan native was put in charge of public education in the U.S. Michigan teachers are getting a big refund. And a plan to rate schools with letter grades fizzled. Those are among the top education storiesÃÂ ...
The Michigan Daily
November 30, 2017
Problems extend to physical structures too: in 2016, Detroit Public Schools teachers repeatedly staged sick-outs in protest of dilapidated school buildings and depleted salary funds. “Please accept my congratulations for Michigan's approved consolidated state plan,” DeVos wrote in her approval letter to ...
New Pittsburgh Courier
November 30, 2017
Black Detroit is an indispensable study of the Motor City's Black church, media, labor struggles, politics, and culture both yesterday and today. Some months ago, I met Youngstown Ohio-based historian Vince Ajamu Shivers shortly after a public education forum in Pittsburgh's east end. He made the ...
UpNorthLive.com
November 28, 2017
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is expected to be a strong contender if he ... abuse prevention, tax reform, and public education improvements.
WWMT-TV
November 28, 2017
Rick Snyder in Detroit where the two Republicans spoke about Michigan's ... abuse prevention, tax reform, and public education improvements.
Detroit Metro Times
November 21, 2017
They say that we can't afford to spend more for public education, though, as the Michigan Education Association's David Crim told me, "the ...
www.clickondetroit.com
November 13, 2017
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Jeanice Kerr Swift has announced two new hires in the school system: Ms. Amanda M. Matheson has accepted the position of chief financial officer, a position that was vacant since late August. Ms. Liz Nowland-Margolis has accepted the position ...
Traverse City Record Eagle
November 12, 2017
DETROIT — Mayor Mike Duggan, as expected, breezed to a ... is that the funding model for public education in Michigan no longer works.
Hyperallergic
November 9, 2017
... President Darren Walker on the Power of Art, Inequality, and Detroit ... for marginalized communities, and the importance of public education.
WDIV Detroit
November 9, 2017
Since it began in 1972, the Lottery has contributed more than $20.5 billion to support public education. For additional information, follow the ...
The Detroit News
November 9, 2017
Detroit will not reach its full potential without a stronger traditional public education system. Children need to feel safe, empowered and ...
Toledo Blade
November 9, 2017
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan speaks at the Duggan for Detroit .... is that the funding model for public education in Michigan no longer works.
Detroit Metro Times
November 8, 2017
... with her humiliating confirmation hearing in which she demonstrated an apparent lack of even basic knowledge about public education.
Traverse City Record Eagle
November 8, 2017
And while Detroit Public Schools rank last in the nation in eighth grade ... place and financially disabling the public education “establishment,” ...
Detroit Free Press
November 7, 2017
But, mention it to a public education employee and watch them seethe. In 2010, the Michigan Legislature enacted Public Act 75, requiring ...
Detroit Free Press
November 3, 2017
The Detroit Public Schools Community District's efforts to fill vacant .... done in efforts to reform public education, and the education community, ...
Bridge Michigan
October 31, 2017
And while Detroit Public Schools rank last in the nation in 8th grade ... place and financially disabling the public education “establishment,” ...
Detroit Free Press
October 26, 2017
Enrollment in the Detroit Public Schools Community District is up 3.8% ... the average Detroiter wants their child in traditional public education.
Crain's Detroit Business
October 17, 2017
... colleges to foster public education and create new opportunities for ... University of Detroit Mercy, University of Michigan, University of ...
WSBT-TV
October 7, 2017
DETROIT (AP) — An autopsy revealed that remnants of a stun gun were in ... The Detroit Free Press quotes the autopsy report as saying "leads" from an ... Her critics say she's hostile to public education and indifferent to civilÃÂ ...
Brunswick News
October 7, 2017
DETROIT (AP) — The winners of this year's international ArtPrize ... Her critics say she's hostile to public education and indifferent to civil rights,ÃÂ ...
KIRO Seattle
October 7, 2017
DETROIT (AP) - The winners of this year's international ArtPrize ... Her critics say she's hostile to public education and indifferent to civil rights,ÃÂ ...
Model D
September 25, 2017
Vitti, Detroit's new school superintendent, had just discovered that the .... it hurt children and it hurt public education and now we have to makeÃÂ ...
The Michigan Daily
September 17, 2017
The University of Michigan held an event in Detroit celebrating its ... of Detroit and Michigan, must recommit to public education for the next 200ÃÂ ...
Detroit Free Press
September 17, 2017
“That not only hurt the city, it hurt children and it hurt public education and now we have to make up for the sins of the past while still movingÃÂ ...
Crain's Detroit Business
September 16, 2017
Nikolai Vitti has an ambitious plan for the Detroit Public Schools system. ... He said he is a staunch supporter of public education because it isÃÂ ...
Daily Detroit
September 11, 2017
Detroit schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti greets students .... it hurt children and it hurt public education and now we have to make up for theÃÂ ...
Michigan Radio
September 9, 2017
Public education in Michigan is in a free-fall ... Ask Detroit Public Schools, where funding plummeted when families fled the city schools forÃÂ ...
Crain's Detroit Business (blog)
September 8, 2017
Detroit construction boom highlights shortcomings in city's school .... While the public education system attempts to rebuild, the challenge for theÃÂ ...
Fox 2 Detroit
August 22, 2017
Detroit Public School Community District leader Dr. Nikolai Vitti made it clear that on his ... "I'm for K-12 traditional public education," Vitti said.
MLive.com
August 22, 2017
DETROIT, MI - A federal judge will hear arguments over a class-action ... to lead in the city's water are receiving an adequate public education.
The Detroit News
August 22, 2017
Earlier this month, lawyers representing Detroit schoolchildren argued in federal court that the state has failed children in three public schoolsÃÂ ...
The Detroit News
August 22, 2017
“Traditional public education at-scale is the greatest vehicle for social change, social justice and social transformation. My entire life has beenÃÂ ...
Progress Index
August 20, 2017
... of students with disabilities at a high school in Detroit Public Schools. ... in public education, the last three at Southside Elementary School inÃÂ ...
The Detroit News
August 16, 2017
Many believed we wouldn't still be around to stand up for workers, families, and public education — and they were wrong. Second is theÃÂ ...
Afro American
August 9, 2017
Today, as in many other cities where the public education system all but ... in charters, Detroit has followed a similar path to the nation's capital,ÃÂ ...
Crain's Detroit Business
August 8, 2017
The Detroit Children's Fund has named Jack Elsey, chief schools officer ... Elsey, 35, brings 13 years of public education experience to the newÃÂ ...
Detroit Metro Times
August 2, 2017
Danielle Eliska Lyle, a Detroit native, returned to the city to attend the ..... fire, public services, like public education, etc) to run from the fire of theÃÂ ...
The Detroit News
July 31, 2017
Detroit — Participants at a community meeting Monday night discussed having parents opt out of standardized testing as a way to fight theÃÂ ...
Bridge Michigan
July 27, 2017
"We knew there were risks in entering such a volatile arena as public education in Detroit. We also know ESD has improved the lives ofÃÂ ...
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
July 26, 2017
The Detroit Free Press reports that hundreds of demonstrators came ... The group's own definition of “public education” clearly misses the mark.
The Detroit News
December 31, 1999
Public education and local government groups opposed the plan because schools and cities receive a portion of state sales tax revenue.
The Detroit News
December 31, 1999
The Detroit News published an editorial (“Court wrong place to enforce literacy,” Aug. 16) concerning a lawsuit in which we represent sevenÃÂ ...
