Chastity Pratt

The NAACP urges a moratorium on new charter schools. A new law, though, already limits their growth in Detroit.

Detroit’s mayor has said early and often he should be judged by whether Detroit gains population. So far, it hasn’t.

Michigan’s law that calls for the annual closure of the state’s worst schools is unique in the nation.

Amid a graduation gap, Michigan colleges are making a greater effort to help low-income, first generation and other at-risk students earn their college degree.

Pneumonia was blamed for 177 deaths over two years. Experts say Legionnaires’ was likely the culprit in some of the deaths, but patients were never tested. The county is now requiring such testing.

The nominee for U.S. Education Secretary has used money and muscle to make Michigan a free-market lab for charter and school choice expansion. Can she sell the results?

Michigan uses a for-profit company that’s been accused in the death, injury and abuse of prisoners, while other prisoners have escaped. State prison officials don’t want to talk about it

To reduce injuries, deaths, escapes and lawsuits involving for-profit prison transport companies, state prison officials could consider these recommendations

Some of the 63 candidates for school board want to carry on the fight against the state’s financial oversight. Others vow to work within the state’s restrictions. See our database on each candidate.

Detroit Community Schools, run by former Detroit city attorney Sharon McPhail, faces $21k in monthly fines for continuing to employ her and another administrator who the state say lack proper certification as administrators. She has appealed.

Nearly 50 years after the racial tumult of 1967, state schools of choice policies are helping to create more racially segregated districts in metro Detroit and beyond.

Ferndale, an inner-ring suburb popular with Detroit students, is taking bold steps to desegregate its schools.

More resources are being sought for transportation that recently doubled the number of Flint-area residents hired and bused to jobs in Livingston County.

A school run by former Detroit city councilwoman Sharon McPhail is fined after a Bridge investigation revealed she is unlicensed

Detroit’s school board will have power limits unlike other districts across Michigan. Some fear that those restrictions will scare off strong candidate

We asked leaders around metro Detroit to talk frankly about racial attitudes in their lives and communities. These five answered the bell.