LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan won’t be flooded with a huge wave of new charter schools next academic year, despite a new state law that lifts restrictions on the number allowed in the state.
While some decisions on openings and closings have yet …

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DETROIT (AP) — Students from a Detroit school and the University of Michigan are setting up six outdoor libraries in the city following recent library branch closings.
Five of the outdoor libraries, which are housed in waterproof bookcases, opened…

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Published Online: April 5, 2012

By Chastity Pratt Dawsey, Detroit Free Press, (MCT)

Detroit Public Schools is planning radical changes for the next school year in an effort to bring in money and become a smaller system of autonomous schools after y…

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By Chastity Pratt Dawsey, Detroit Free Press , (MCT)
Detroit Public Schools is planning radical changes for the next school year in an effort to bring in money and become a smaller system of autonomous schools after years of enrollment and state-aid …

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By Chastity Pratt Dawsey, Detroit Free Press , (MCT)
Detroit Public Schools is planning radical changes for the next school year in an effort to bring in money and become a smaller system of autonomous schools after years of enrollment and state-aid …

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By Chastity Pratt Dawsey, Detroit Free Press , (MCT)
Detroit Public Schools is planning radical changes for the next school year in an effort to bring in money and become a smaller system of autonomous schools after years of enrollment and state-aid …

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By Chastity Pratt Dawsey, Detroit Free Press , (MCT)
Detroit Public Schools is planning radical changes for the next school year in an effort to bring in money and become a smaller system of autonomous schools after years of enrollment and state-aid …

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Published Online: April 3, 2012

A senior honors student at George Washington High School in Philadelphia, Zach Morales keeps quiet about his love of reading.
—Jessica Kourkounis for NewsWorks

A week with a Washington High honors student highlights…

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MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Money problems are so severe in one Michigan school district that officials have given up hope of finding a solution themselves. They’re ready for the extreme option: a take-over by a state-appointed “emergency manag…

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STEVENSVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A white teacher in southwestern Michigan has agreed to attend a racial sensitivity workshop after giving a vocabulary quiz that described a poor, mostly black city as “sordid.”
The full question shows English teacher Chr…

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