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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
