Highly transient populations in Detroit make classroom cohesion difficult, adding yet another challenge atop many others for teachers.
Urban Affairs
In-depth reporting on Michigan’s largest city and surrounding communities, including deep dives into the big changes afoot in Detroit, its schools, neighborhoods, institutions and city hall.
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The children of 8B: Choice, school hopping brings ‘chaos’ to Detroit classrooms
One in three elementary school students changes schools every year in Detroit, a city with so many school options that choice has become a big reason test scores are so low.
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National group is paying bail for poor jail defendants in Detroit
The project, supported by Wayne County Jail officials, is part of a movement to eliminate cash bail to avoid disparities between those who can pay and those who can’t while they await their day in court.
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Is lead in your Michigan school’s water? Chances are, nobody knows.
As state bills requiring school water tests stall, Detroit’s voluntary testing raises questions about lead in schools across Michigan.
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M-STEP results trouble for most struggling schools in Detroit, statewide
Detroit schools saw just a small fraction of its students post a passing score in English Language Arts and math. But new leaders say their changes are only now starting to be implemented.
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Poor people at risk of eviction as tax credits expire and Detroit revives
Detroit city officials, housing advocates and developers are scrambling to preserve low-income housing as tax credits expire in the city’s trendiest neighborhoods.
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Real estate is hot in Detroit. But its top owner, the city, isn’t selling.
The Detroit Land Bank owns 20 percent of all residential property in the city. But just 3 percent of its holdings are for sale, frustrating would-be homeowners.
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Rising rents. Falling wages. Detroit’s poor face housing crisis.
Away from Midtown, stable housing increasingly is becoming out of reach for the working poor.
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Gretchen Whitmer officially taps Garlin Gilchrist II as running mate
Whitmer’s announcement came as Democrats and Republicans prepare for their nominating conventions — and days after GOP Attorney General Bill Schuette named Kent County Clerk and former state Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons.
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan flexes clout, mostly scores with Dem wins
The mayor got behind Gretchen Whitmer and targeted lawmakers who fought auto insurance reforms. But Duggan candidates had some big misses, too.