Ex-Flint EM to resign from DPS, refuses to testify at Congressional hearing
The news comes on the same day the FBI confirmed it was investigating officials’ role in the Flint water crisis.
Detroit schools riddled with rodents, mold, broken toilets, fire hazards, no heat
The sobering discovery comes after Mayor Mike Duggan began requiring inspections of all 97 schools in the Detroit Public Schools system.
Report: DPS on brink of collapse as state fails to manage crisis
The state has fueled the decline by reducing funding, closing schools and allowing nearly 100 charter schools to open.
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.
Motor City Muckraker to focus on education, Mayor Duggan’s administration in 2016
In 2015, we spent a year investigating Detroit’s beleaguered, mismanaged Fire Department, leading to reforms and the ousting of the top fire officials in 2015.
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.
Students outraged after teacher suspended over blackface video
The Monroe teacher is at the center of a heated debate after showing his students a video depicting entertainers in blackface as part of a history lesson on racism.
Detroit Public Schools fails students without standards for under-qualified teachers
The lack of professional standards prompted one teacher to give up his career to sell insurance.
Wayne State University offers class on Detroit’s ‘historic comeback’
The guest lecturers will include Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, former Councilman Kenneth Cockerel Jr. and others.
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.