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The Target At Eastland Mall Will Close

There was a time when Eastland Mall was a place to be. Some of us remember taking the 31 Mack to Eastland when our parents wouldn’t or couldn’t drive us up, so in a way it’s kind of sad to watch the mall continue whither. At that time I knew nothing of how malls helped bring about the decline inner city downtowns. The motivations of the time were simpler. I just wanted to talk to cute girls. In 1996 when Target opened, it was a really big deal. The future of the mall seemed certain. But as s...

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Their Charter School Was In Debt, So Teachers Won't Get Paid

Furious teachers at a recently shuttered Detroit charter school were notified Wednesday that they won’t be paid thousands of dollars they earned during the last school year. Teachers at the Michigan Technical Academy had contracts that required the school to pay them through the summer for work they did during the school year. But the school’s management company, Matchbook Learning, alerted teachers in an email Wednesday that the money would instead go to pay off the school’s debts. “Last Fr...

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Where Are The Detroit Schools That Face Possible Closure? Everywhere.

Detroiters are only now absorbing the reality of potentially losing 25 struggling schools and trying to figure out where as many as 12,000 displaced students would go if their school is shut down at the end of the school year. This map, which was shared at a meeting of educators and community leaders on Wednesday, shows Detroit schools by a state ranking that measures primarily test scores and graduation rates. Red dots represent schools that have been ranked in the bottom 5 percent for thre...

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The Target At Eastland Mall Will Close

Their Charter School Was In Debt, So Teachers Won't Get Paid

Where Are The Detroit Schools That Face Possible Closure? Everywhere.