February 10, 2005

Detroit announces 40 school closures

Detroit Public Schools officials are expected to announce today the names of up to 40 of the district\'s 252 schools that will be shut down by June, a number experts believe is the most by a district in a single year nationwide. Kurt Metzger, research director of the Center for Urban Studies at WSU said that if district officials would have responded to the loss of students with closures earlier, they would have more time to come up with a strategy of the best schools to close. Detroit administrators haven\'t had time to strategize. Just a week before they plan to announce the closures, they were putting together the deficit reduction plan.

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