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Erin Einhorn / Chalkbeat How Private Funding Creates Disparities Among Detroit's Pre-K Classrooms
Some students get field trips, science kits, and new toys while the kids down the hall get nothing.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How a DeVos-Founded School Benefitted From Michigan's Ranking System
In two years, some of the state’s top-performing schools plunged by 50 percentile points. West Michigan Aviation Academy rose from the 32nd percentile to the 87th.
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Erin Einhorn The Challenge of Manufacturing a Diverse Campus
A charter in Detroit that sought to attract families of all races and incomes is seeing real integration. But it might not stay that way.
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Erin Einhorn / Chalkbeat Reinvesting in Detroit's Public Schools
Once a symbol for the city’s broken hallways, Spain Elementary-Middle is now a model of revitalization.
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Joshua Lott / Reuters Why Detroit Is an Education-Funding Vacuum
National groups aren’t coming to help some of the country’s most troubled schools.
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Carlos Osorio / AP The Extreme Sacrifice Detroit Parents Make to Access Better Schools
Some parents have to travel six hours and take up to eight buses each day to take their kids to better schools outside of their neighborhoods.
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Courtesy of Monument Academy The Rise of Urban Public Boarding Schools
They’re designed to provide extra attention to students who suffer from trauma. But are they worth all the extra taxpayer dollars?
