Plan to improve DPS gives Snyder, Duggan more control over Detroit’s education
Gov. Snyder and Mayor Duggan would gain more control of DPS under new legislation.
Mayor Duggan pledges to inspect all 97 DPS school buildings for health violations
State officials have been slow to correct health violations that include mold, structural issues, fire and electrical hazards and a lack of heat.
DOJ complaint: School officials ignored warnings about Charles Pugh seducing students
DPS officials are accused of ignoring numerous complaints that Charles Pugh was preying on students.
2 men rob armored truck near Cass Tech High School; 1 still on run
Police this morning were looking for a second suspect who was seen running north on Cass Avenue.
Life in Detroit: Generations blend outside of Corktown book event
As young and trendy revelers mixed, mingled, saw, and worked to be seen, two older men sat on wood lounge chairs on a wood-frame porch attached to a wood-frame house.
Firefighters find body in trunk of burned car outside Detroit school
The victim was the sixth murder victim discovered by firefighters in two months.
DPS combats proliferation of graffiti at vacant schools
Dozens of vacant Detroit schools are riddled with graffiti, driving down adjacent property values and making it difficult for the cash-strapped district to find a new buyer for the buildings.
Police scour southwest Detroit after reported shooting outside of school
A coach told police that two teenagers shot at a group of young people near Amelia Earhart Elementary Middle School.
Police catch girls, ages 11 to 13, trying to burn down vacant Detroit school
Police were shocked to find four girls setting fires inside the vacant Van Zile School.
Feb. 13, 1922: Detroit’s first black public school teacher dies
Richards taught at Everett Elementary School for 44 years. It was there that she established the first kindergarten in Michigan.