About Detroit Public Schools
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. The district has five of the best public high schools in America, according to U.S. News and World Report. Last year, the district led the state in the number of National Achievement Scholarship winners. Read on to learn more about the opportunities behind the doors of every Detroit Public School, and you, too, will want to say, “I’m in.”
News & Press Releases
DPS News & Press Releases Site
Information News Center
Detroit Public Schools achieves a clean audit, significantly improves findings
Robert Bobb wishes to thank the community for support of Proposal S
“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.”
Read Bobb’s full letter
DPS and Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion collaborate on H1N1 flu guidance, clinics
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
Parent Resource Room
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
Photocopying • Lending Library • Internet Browsing • Educational DVDs • Parent Training • Information about Upcoming Events • School Improvement Planning • Faxing • Academic Achievement Support • Free Resource Materials • Much much more!
For more information, please call (313) 873-7490. Download Flier
Proposal S
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.
DPS held a Back to School Parade & Rally · August 27, 2009 at Hart Plaza
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.
Detroit Public Schools to Transform Failing Schools, Reinvent Education Model
The Emergency Financial Manager today announced an unprecedented redesign strategy that will allow four educational partners with a proven track record of raising student achievement to spearhead an historic transformation of 17 of the district's lowest-performing high schools.
Detroit Public Schools Budget
Emergency Summer Program
Public Safety Transformation
Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert C. Bobb today made the following statement:
"In the course of my more than two dozen community forums and thousands of conversations, phone calls and email messages from Detroit's parents over the course of my first 107 days in the district, it is clear that safety and security of our children, not only on campus but on the way to and from school is their major concern, in many cases surpassing even academics as the number one issue."
Public Safety Transformation Announcement
May 26, 2009 Professional Development Day, Building Centers of Excellence in Every School for Every Child in Every Neighborhood
May 15 Announcement: School Principal Assignments for 2009 - 2010
May 12 Restructuring and Reorganization Announcement
- Consolidation and Reinvestment Program Schedule
- Facility Consolidation and Reinvestment Plan
- 2009 Closure & Reinvestment Plan Town Hall Meetings Schedule
- Letter to DPS Parents
- Parent/Community Quarterly Newsletters
- Ronald McNair Presents Winter of Warmth
- The Detroit Public Schools offers choices that can help parents help their children to perform better in their classes. If your child is eligible, you have the option of transferring your child to a higher performing school and/or you have the option of securing free tutoring services.
- Superintendent Connie K. Calloway, Ph.D, will have the opportunity to visit schools and programs in Korea later this month
- The Citywide Baby Shower recently held at the Catherine Ferguson Academy, attracted many teen mothers, their friends and family to the school to find out how it can help the young mothers get back on the education highway. It was a productive day that also provided those in attendance with an enjoyabale afternoon.
Take a look at our snapshots
- Students at Breithaupt, Crockett and Randolph Career Technical Centers have spent their first part of the summer working on beautiful creations for the 5th Annual Entrepreneur Trade Fair where you can spend a little, get something really special and the students keep the proceeds.
- DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT RECOVERS STOLEN COMPUTERS AND ARRESTS THIEVES
- The Skillman Foundation has been a steady supporter of the educational programs for students in the Detroit Public Schools. This year, 82 Detroit Public schools shared over $2 million in Skillman Grants. It made a difference because the money was used to help the students achieve. For more details, please click here.
- The Southeastern High School of Technology community and it's parnters in education, the Chrysler Mack Engine plants and Jefferson North Assembly, invite you to attend the first, SEHS Community Scholarship Dinner. It will be held on Friday, July 25 at the Wayne County Community College District-Eastern Campus at 5901 Conners, from 7 to 9 p.m. The event is a grand celebration of the accomplishments of our graduating students who plan to continue with college-level studies in Engineering or the Sciences. Each will receive a scholarship check for $1,000. The funds were provided by the Chrysler Foundation.
- Detroit Public Schools 2009 Proposed Budget
- Continuous learning is a good thing and children have an opportunity to keep their academic skills sharp this summer by attending the Fleming Academy Bridge To Summer Learning Program. Click here for more information
- McColl Auditorium Dedication
- WCCCD Reading Carnival
- Take the DPS Web Satisfaction Survey
- Teacher Appreciation Week
- Notice of Upcoming Title I Constellation Meeting Scheduled for May 13, 2008 from 5:30 - 7:30pm
- Superintendent's Evaluation Matrix: Parent/Community Form
- DPS School Employees Safety Tips
- Detroit iTEST Youth Project: Creating Safe Communities through Information Technology Training in Home Land Security Applications
- Congratulations to the Westside Academy Alternative Education Panthers-State Class Alternative High School Basketball Champions for the school year 2007-08
- 'Big Ed' gives funds to the Martin Luther King Jr., Sr. High School Band
- Title I Parent Resource Center - Open Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 5:00pm
- Help Martin Luther King Jr. H.S. Bands Go to China by Donating Today
- DPS Welcome Center Information
- Detroit Public Schools Respond to Staphylococcus Aureus (MRDA Infection)
- Schools of Choice Program: Your child might be able to take advantage.
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