Four major providers of Head Start programs in Detroit must re-apply for funding after losing their federal grants this year, throwing the future of dozens of classrooms in doubt for the fall.
A student's question about a local incinerated led to a teaching unit and a short film made with help from a local artist.
All classes are free and open to parents, caregivers and community members but the Parent Academy program seems to be off to a slow start. A Chalkbeat reporter stopped by three classes last week, selected at random, and found no students attending any of them.
Home visits by teachers and principals are popular across the country. But in Detroit, the stakes are higher.
Here’s what we know about the new materials and what we’ll be watching for in the months ahead.
For the first time in years, the Detroit district summer school program will start in kindergarten. District Superintendent Nikolai Vitti recommended younger school children, in grades kindergarten to second grade, be included in the summer school program at the academic subcommittee meeting Monday. The move is meant
Good news for Detroit district teachers stuck at a low pay level: The finance committee of the school board Friday recommended an agreement with the city’s largest teachers union to raise the pay of veteran teachers — and to bring in experienced teachers at higher salaries. “This is a major step for the district to
Michigan’s 4-year-olds receive some of the highest quality education and care available in the country — that is, if your child can speak English. Michigan was one of only three states to meet all 10 quality benchmarks designed by a national advocacy organization that released its annual State of Preschool Report
Despite the passion fueling the debate over renaming schools like the Ben Carson High School of Science and Medicine, members of the Detroit district school board proposed a deliberate, and slow, approach to changing any school names. Just charting the path toward stripping names from district schools won’t begin
Detroit students who are drowning in homework — or unable to complete it because of challenges at home — could soon find relief in a new policy. The Detroit district on Tuesday proposed putting a cap on the amount of time students in different grade levels spend on homework. Kindergartners would be limited to 10