What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan
Greetings from Detroit, which today looks like a snowglobe-turned-dismal outdoor slushie amid a brief thaw. On today's show, we discuss a new report from the Michigan State University College of Education that finds tht funding for Michigan's public schools has dropped more severely than in any other state over the past quarter-century. We're now dead last among states for …
Davenport University is moving its Livonia campus to the city of Detroit, and they’re doing it in the New Center One Building. They’ll renovate the first floor of the structure on Grand Boulevard across the street from the iconic Fisher Building. Starting in January 2019, the 12,000 square-foot Detroit campus will offer 31 courses in business, health care, technology and …
It looks like the permanent fix for the bad water situation in Detroit’s public schools will be provided by the business and philanthropic community, covering most of the $3 million dollar cost to install water hydration stations. Water fountains were shut off at the beginning of the academic year at all Detroit public schools after finding unacceptable levels of lead and …
Former Detroit City Councilwoman Sharon McPhail has been fired from her post leading a struggling charter school on the city’s west side, but she’s refusing to leave. In response, school authorizer Bay Mills Community College says it’ll seek a court order for her removal and is appointing a conservator to oversee the school. It’s also temporarily suspended the school …
This is your Daily Detroit podcast recorded on October 9, 2018. Our guest for the show is Detroit City Councilman James Tate, to talk about the upcoming "Cash Flash" in Detroit's District 1. Your Detroit stories: - Detroit’s getting yet another luxury apartment building, with rents in the $2,500 a month range for 1,000 square feet. And it’s going to be designed by a …
The Detroit Institute of Arts says a record 73,239 students visited the museum on field trips last school year. That’s an increase of almost 6,000 students from the previous year. Of these, about 29,124 were from Wayne County, 19,288 from Oakland County and 13,714 from Macomb County. The DIA provides free bus transportation and admission for residents of those counties, …
Students started the first day of classes in the Detroit Public Schools Community District with water coolers and bottled water in lieu of drinking fountains. Superintendent Nikolai Vitti ordered drinking water shut off across the district last week after testing found elevated levels of lead or copper in 16 of 24 school buildings and after 18 were given bottled water after …
Highland Park’s school district is a shadow of its former self following years of state emergency management, the closure of its high school in 2015 and its subsequent demolition. But the district is now out of financial oversight and looking to grow. Last week, while recording an episode of the Daily Detroit Happy Hour, we ran into Highland Park School Board President …
From the bustling heart of Midtown over a couple Faygo pops, this is your Daily Detroit News Byte for Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Here are your stories for today. Jefferson on the east side is getting smaller for cars... and bigger for bikes Detroit’s Bike sharing service gets new adaptive bikes Facebook is funding more software training in Detroit And Highland Park …
Here's your Daily Detroit News Byte Podcast for Tuesday, May 8, 2018. Development gets moving at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull... The PGA Tour looks like it's coming to Detroit. What could that mean having such an event in a Detroit neighborhood? City Year Detroit & Gensler Detroit have teamed up to improve a Detroit …
Here’s your Daily Detroit News Byte For Monday, April 23, 2018 recorded in beautiful Grand Circus Park. A video game set in Detroit, "Detroit: Become Human" is about to launch. A playable demo comes out Tuesday. The largest robotics competition in the world is coming to Detroit this week Detroit’s harnessing some flower power A Cass Corridor jazz club relaunches …
The Detroit school board Tuesday adopted a new, $7.1 million curriculum that Superintendent Nikolai Vitti says is a key part of his plan to bring Detroit schools up from the bottom of national rankings. Earlier Tuesday morning Detroit was ranked last — for the fifth time — among urban school districts on a national test known as the Nation’s Report Card. Vitti’s former …
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte podcast for Saturday, March 31, 2018. -The suburb of Warren is trying to create a downtown -A Detroit councilman is being sued -Local furniture maker Floyd is opening up a retail shop in Eastern Market -The State of Michigan adds 21 more schools to their possible closure list. Three, all charters, are in Detroit. -The Michigan …
Michigan's schools are in trouble. Although many parents believe their school and their teacher are fine, compared to the rest of the nation the state ranks very poorly. It wasn't always this way. Over the years, other states like Tennessee and Florida have surpassed Michigan. Fighting between factions has locked progress in Michigan's schools in place. The status quo - …
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte For Thursday, March 15th, 2018. Wayne County Exec Warren Evans has a new plan to improve regional transit March Madness comes to Detroit GM invests in autonomous vehicle production in Michigan Detroit businesses will get grants to improve their facades Zingerman’s is Michigan’s only James Beard Award finalist A Detroit …
A water-damaged, mold-infested elementary school building in northwest Detroit will be closed for the rest of the school year while crews replace the roof and make other repairs. District superintendent Nikolai Vitti notified the school board about plans for the Palmer Park Preparatory Academy during a board meeting Tuesday night that became so raucous, the board called a …
What happens when seven of Detroit's best chefs come together to cook? Well, first of all I'm pretty sure that the food is going to be amazing. And secondly, there is probably a really cool reason that they are all cooking together. On Monday, April 30 that is exactly what is going to happen at the Great Lakes Culinary Center in Southfield. And it is for a really great …
After largely steering clear of education during his first term, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is now looking for ways to become more invested in the city schools. City Hall is already leading an effort called the Detroit Children’s Success Initiative that will put more social workers, therapists, and family support staff into schools. But the mayor is also having conversations …
Teachers and staff in Detroit’s main school district could soon have to tell their supervisors if they are supplementing their salaries with a side job. The school board’s policy committee last week approved a new policy that says the district “expects employees to disclose outside employment” and bars employees from working a second job while on any kind of leave. The …
The largest investment by an auto supplier in the City of Detroit in over 20 years is well underway. Auto supplier Flex-N-Gate Detroit will soon be hiring over 400 employees. The positions will range from hourly workers to management. Flex-N-Gate owner Shad Khan has committed to hiring Detroit residents first. The company will be partnering with Detroit Works to help …
The Michigan Science Center has been named on of the finalists in the US2020 STEM Coalition Challenge. Judges for the competition looked at how each organization incorporated science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to underrepresented students. They were also evaluated on their potential impact, approach to partnership building, creative engagement strategies, …
Detroit’s main school district is changing the way it decides which students gain entry to the city’s elite high schools. Students applying to Cass Technical High School, Renaissance High School and two other selective high schools will no longer be judged primarily on the results of a single exam. Instead, an admissions team comprised of teachers and staff from the …
Here's your Daily Detroit News Byte for Friday, January 19. On the docket today: The State of Michigan is on the verge of changing public school funding to benefit charters Detroit didn't get Amazon HQ2 (We have a full episode on the topic over on the Daily Detroit Happy Hour): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-detroit-happy-hour/id1168444594?mt=2 The …
On Thursday morning I went to City Year's 7th annual Women's Leadership Breakfast. Every year, City Year Detroit holds this breakfast as a way to discuss empowering young Detroiters. This year the topic was how City Year could help foster a strong workforce in Detroit. I see two separate ways that City Year is helping the next generation get ready for workforce …
The two major foundations behind the creation of a ten-year plan to improve the lives of Detroit’s youngest children are putting up $50 million to help put the plan into action. As they unveiled the new Hope Starts Here framework Friday morning, the Kellogg and Kresge foundations announced they would each spend $25 million in the next few years to improve the health and …
More than two dozen struggling Detroit schools will likely be added to the state’s “partnership” program after posting years of rock-bottom test scores. That will bring to 50 the number of Detroit schools in the program, which requires schools to meet certain improvement targets or face consequences. Those consequences could include closure or a staff shake-up but, for …
When it comes to programs that help kids, it's difficult to match the determination and results of the Downtown Boxing Gym on the near east side of the city. Khali Sweeney (we’ve had him as a guest on our Daily Detroit Happy Hour podcast) founded and runs the after-school program that serves 156 Detroit students from the ages of 8-18. There are some impressive numbers …
It's a sobering statistic, especially as the world moves more and more toward technology- and information-related careers. According to data from Michigan’s Center for Educational Performance and Information, 73 percent of the region’s high school graduates enroll in college within a year of graduating. That's not so bad, compared to the nation. However, just 35 percent — …
Schools across the state brought out donuts, dinosaurs, smoothies and all manor of special events on Wednesday to lure as many students to school as humanly possible. It’s all part of a school funding system in Michigan that determines how much money schools receive from the state based on the number of students in class on “Count Day.” “It’s not the best way to count …
When the school year began at Detroit’s Central High School last month, a beloved teacher was missing. Quincy Stewart, who was featured in a June Chalkbeat story about his innovative use of music to teach students about African-American history, had been determined to stay at Central. “I do this is because I’m a black man and these are black children,” he told Chalkbeat …
The RACER trust, which was formed to deal with land left over from the General Motors bankruptcy in 2011, has apparently put some more of that land to work. This time, 25 acres in Southwest Detroit, just off of Michigan Avenue. A statement says that the buyers, General Development and Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions, “are working …
