updated Sat. March 4, 2023
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Crain's Detroit Business
April 22, 2018
New Paradigm for Education, a nonprofit operator of high-performing charter schools in Detroit, is looking to expand by taking on management of low-performing charters in the city. With a $5 million, three-year grant secured last year from the Detroit Children's Fund, New Paradigm has set a goal to doubleÃâà...
Michigan Radio
April 21, 2018
Detroit and Wayne County leaders want voters to decide on a new proposal that would expand transit services across southeast Michigan. ... Duggan first floated the idea of combined transportation and after-school programs for some Detroit public and charter schools in his State of the City address lastÃâà...
Chalkbeat Colorado
April 21, 2018
A 2013 study showed that attending a Boston charter school, often lauded for high test scores, substantially increased the amount of time students were suspended. And to be clear, the GAO data show that black students at charter schools — and all kinds of schools in the report — still get suspended at aÃâà...
The Detroit News
April 20, 2018
During a debate on school choice in America, Detroit schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said Wednesday he could speak first-hand about what it was like to ... report by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 53 percent of children, or about 50,460 students, in the district attended a charter school.
Michronicleonline
April 9, 2018
Now two decades later, our school district is $3.5 BILLION in debt, its student-test scores are the nation's worst, and it has lost three-quarters of its population to suburban districts and to the encroaching proliferation of for-profit charter schools. These unregulated charters have corporate-collusive boardsÃâà...
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
April 4, 2018
Nearby is a former Detroit Public Schools building, sitting empty for years. But, worried about competition, the public school district refused to sell. For years, district and local government officials in Detroit had worked to block public charter schools. They pushed legislation at the Michigan Capitol to hinderÃâà...
Chalkbeat Indiana
April 3, 2018
Charters are still leading in overall enrollment. Detroit already has one of the largest charter school enrollments in the nation, with more than half of its roughly 100,000 students attending charters in the city and surrounding suburbs. But charters have taken a public relations beating in Detroit in recent years,Ãâà...
WZZM13.com
March 30, 2018
Sixteen charter schools are on a new list of schools and districts that are subject to agreements with the state to turn around failing performance. The Michigan Department of Education on Friday morning released the list of 21 school districts that officials will begin having discussions with — based on poorÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
March 20, 2018
Michigan's academic slide has reached crisis mode, but don't blame Detroit students, school spending, charter schools or poverty, according to a report ... But, it says that because they overall represent about 9% of Michigan's total public school enrollment, "Michigan's charter school sector is simply notÃâà...
CBS Detroit
March 19, 2018
(AP) – A former teacher is donating funds she received in a settlement with a Michigan charter school to organizations that work to curtail domestic violence. The Bay City Times reports that Mika Yamamoto filed the suit in 2017 against Renaissance Public School Academy, Principal Lisa Bergman andÃâà...
Chalkbeat New York
March 11, 2018
New York's top education policymakers are set to discuss a slew of charter school issues at their meeting this week. The Board of Regents will decide whether some charter schools should remain open and vote on changes to others, such as increasing enrollment. Additionally, a state work group that hasÃâà...
Michigan Radio
March 9, 2018
Getting kids to school in Detroit can be a real hassle. Some parents drive their kids nearly 30 minutes to get them to their school of choice, whether that's a public school or a charter school. In his State of the City address this week, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan outlined a plan: Pick an area, then offer busÃâà...
Chalkbeat New York
March 8, 2018
The commission, which would have had some oversight over district and charter schools, was conceived as a way to bring order to Detroit's splintered school system, which is nearly evenly split between district and charter schools. But some charter school leaders worried at the time that the commissionÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
March 7, 2018
A bold proposal to create a unified school bus system in one northwest Detroit neighborhood would be an unprecedented step toward getting cooperation between charter schools and traditional public schools in a city in which the two sectors have typically waged a battle for students. Detroit SchoolsÃâà...
The Detroit News
March 7, 2018
Detroit — After years of watching suburban schools use marketing tools to recruit children from its neighborhoods, Detroit declared this week that it's ready to fight back. The city's public schools and charter schools are joining forces with Mayor Mike Duggan and the Skillman Foundation to launch a newÃâà...
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
February 22, 2018
After spending months fighting to prevent the sale of an abandoned building to a charter school, Detroit's superintendent supports the sale of another property to a prison. The Detroit Free Press reported last week that Superintendent Nikolai Vitti recommended accepting the sole $200,000 offer for vacantÃâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
The state as a whole is still below average, and its largest city, Detroit, was rated the worst-performing urban district for the fifth time running. ... Charter schools are tuition-free public schools governed by independent boards that are given extra flexibility to meet state accountability standards and the termsÃâà...
Southgate News Herald
December 31, 1999
The Monarchs dropped both ends of a doubleheader against Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard on Friday April, 13 and knocked off Detroit Western International two days earlier. Against AA Richard, the Monarchs (3-2, 0-2 CHSL AA) fell by a score of 8-3 in the first game and 5-4 in the nightcap. In the first contest,Ãâà...
Detroit Free Press
December 31, 1999
Moore warned the board also to be cautious of people she said are out to destroy the district and turn its schools into charter schools. She told members they should sue the state over the school district's condition after nearly two decades of state control. The state took over the district from 1999 to 2005.
