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2 weeks ago | bridgedetroit.com | Hannah Dellinger |Lori Higgins |Christine Ferretti

This story first appeared in Chalkbeat. Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. After more than two hours of heated criticism from the public, the Detroit school board reversed course and issued a statement condemning the detention of a district high school student by federal immigration officials.

3 weeks ago | bridgedetroit.com | Lori Higgins |Lauren Abdel-Razzaq

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. The June 6 deadline for Detroit district parents to enroll their children in summer school is quickly approaching. The school year for the Detroit Public Schools Community District ends June 10. Summer school begins June 23 and runs through July 25.

2 months ago | bridgedetroit.com | Lori Higgins |Christine Ferretti

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free monthly newsletter How I Teach to get inspiration, news, and advice for — and from — educators. Mario Lemons leads a school in the same westside Detroit neighborhood where he grew up, and just a block away from the high school from which he graduated.

2 months ago | bridgedetroit.com | Lori Higgins |Lauren Abdel-Razzaq

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. Challenges faced by working parents can contribute to chronic absenteeism, according to a new book. “The shift is like a twelve-hour shift,” said one parent whose experience was recounted in “Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism: Why Schools Can’t Solve It Alone,” which was written by two Wayne State University education researchers.

Mar 27, 2025 | bridgedetroit.com | Lori Higgins |Lauren Abdel-Razzaq

Researchers Sarah Winchell Lenhoff and Jeremy Singer have been studying chronic absenteeism in Detroit for years, talking to scores of parents, students, educators, and school administrators along the way, and keeping track of many school efforts to reduce absenteeism. One thing they’ve learned during that time is that no matter how much passion schools put into solving the chronic absenteeism problem, they may be fighting a losing battle.