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Detroit Public Schools, Michigan’s largest school district, serves nearly 90,000 students in 172 schools throughout the city of Detroit. The district’s mission is to create Centers of Excellence in every school in every neighborhood. The school systems’ administration, teachers and staff have a laser-like focus on creating learning opportunities to prepare children for the 21st Century and ensure they can compete in a global economy. Last year, the district led the state in the number of National Achievement Scholarship winners.
Five-year plan complements city’s efforts on neighborhood revitalization
Detroit Public Schools will be transformed over the next five years from a district with many under-capacity schools in aging buildings to one in which about 75 percent of all students will attend new or recently renovated schools, under a new Facilities Master Plan released Wednesday.
Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb said the Master Plan creates a leaner, smarter DPS by taking into account citywide demographic trends, school performance, condition of school buildings, operating costs, the new Academic Plan, community partnerships and other factors.
“Most importantly for the residents of the City of Detroit and the parents in the Detroit Public Schools, it invests more than $1 billion in city neighborhoods, including new schools, athletic complexes, health clinics and public spaces,” Bobb said.
Monday, March 15
The new Detroit Public Schools Academic Plan significantly raises the bar for academic rigor at all levels and lays out a roadmap for change that will provide the children of Detroit with the education they need to compete in the global economy of the 21st century.
The plan ia a blueprint to radically improve the number of students participating in Advanced Placement classes and expand the number of students who have dual enrollment in college through partnerships with colleges and universities that will have spaces to teach in DPS school buildings. The academic plan also includes an array of arts and music programs across the district and smaller high school campuses to give students more personalized attention. It also includes a new “Marketplace of Schools,” which will give parents and students exciting options that fit their individual needs, like a Choir Academy, School for Medicine and Science and more.
Detroit Public Schools is ramping up plans to build eight new schools and modernize 10 schools thanks to the passage of Proposal S, a bond referendum voters approved on Nov. 3 to take advantage of $500.5 million in stimulus dollars that President Barack Obama made available to build new schools and modernize existing schools.
To learn more about opportunities for workers and contractors, to read over project oversight and to follow updates on construction project timelines and much more, go to our web site for the DPS School Construction Project.
Six of the PSL's 24 boys' basketball teams, or one-fourth, won district titles and are still vying in the state tournament entering today's regional games. They are: Defending state champion Pershing, Southeastern and Denby in Class A; Crockett Tech and Frederick Douglass in Class B; and City in Class C.
Boys' Basketball Regionals Schedule
The Title 1 Summer Campership Program at Dr. Burt R. Shurly Camp located in Gregory Michigan for Detroit Public Schools students ages 7 – 12 is scheduled for Summer 2010.
At the camp students are afforded a six day overnight experience where Michigan certified teachers offer enrichment in Language Arts, Mathematics and Natural Science. Additional emphasis will be placed on socialization, character-building, self reliance and individual creativity.
There is no cost to individual schools or parents.
Applications can be obtained through your child's school, DPS Welcome Center, or you may contact Tammy Deane at (313) 873-4941, Joe Clay at (313) 873-7733 or Charlie Reed Johnson at (313) 873-7758.
More details about the Summer Campership Program
“I want to extend my profound thanks to everyone who supported the passage of Proposal S,” said Robert Bobb, DPS’ Emergency Financial Manager. “This is a time of change for the City of Detroit, change away from the old methods and old solutions, from the old players and the old games, from regressing about everything that went wrong to marching forward together for the bright future of our city and its children. We will now move forward quickly and aggressively to implement this $500.5 million bond, including eight new and ten modernized buildings.”
Detroit Public Schools has been coordinating with the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion (DHWP) and Children’s Hospital of Michigan’s CATCH Pediatric Mobile Team to develop a plan to prevent the spread of the H1N1 flu virus. The district is also preparing a plan in the event of an outbreak.
For more information for parents and what schools should do, go to: www.detroitk12.org/h1n1
The Title I Parent Resource Room is open:
Monday – Thursday
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Welcome Center
3031 W Grand Blvd
Detroit, MI 48202
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Detroit Public Schools’ Emergency Financial Manager, Robert Bobb, held a series of public town hall meetings on details of Proposal S, a $500.5 million bond referendum to take advantage of millions of dollars in stimulus funds that President Barack Obama made available to build new schools and modernize existing schools.
The event featured hundreds of DPS Students, bands from Cass Tech, Martin Luther King High School and others, clowns, Freedom Danz xpressions and Detroit Windsor Academy Dance team and Parade Company Floats.
Renaissance High School band needs community’s help to raise funds for 2010 European Music Tour
3/19/2010
DPS Facilities Master Plan to create leaner, more efficient system
3/18/2010
Renaissance, Pershing advance to semifinals of Class A girls’ basketball state tournament
3/17/2010
Detroit Public Schools students show improvement in MEAP test performance
3/14/2010
Detroit Public Schools ramps up efforts to serve alumni
3/11/2010
Detroit Public Schools to invest in $41.7 million student safety plan
3/6/2010
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Transition Services - Leave No Child Behind Workshop
3/22/2010 3:30 pm - 7:30 pm
At Brewer Elementary School, the students dress for success, in uniform, much as the children did who formerly occupied their building. Brewer was established in the former Guardian Angels Catholic …
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