About the Entry

Erin Einhorn’s coverage of Detroit Public Schools includes close looks at the impact of school choice on students and families, challenges for campus leadership, and efforts by community groups and educators to turn around its struggling education system.

• On a superintendent’s first day, just another Tuesday for 37 Detroit first-graders with no music or art or gym
• ‘Possible, but daunting’: Inside Nikolai Vitti’s early effort to transform Detroit’s battered public schools
• Can this Detroit principal help her students learn quickly enough to save her school?
• How changes to Michigan’s school ranking system hurt Cass Tech — and helped the DeVos family charter school
• How generous private donations have created a tale of two pre-Ks in Detroit
• Detroit parents steered to ‘better’ schools — that don’t actually take Detroit kids

Entry Credit

• Erin Einhorn, Senior Detroit Correspondent, Chalkbeat

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