February 11, 2005

In June, Detroit to shut down 34 schools

More than 10,000 students will be uprooted when 34 Detroit public schools shut their doors this June. In the next five years, the Detroit Public Schools must cut more than $560 million in expenses. In the next three years, the district predicts enrollment will drop by about 40,000 students from 140,000 and another 60 to 75 schools will have to close. Kurt Metzger, a research director at WSU\'s Center for Urban Studies, said the city and the district need to work together to stop the population and school enrollment decline. \"They should be tracking what neighborhoods have really been hit and where people are leaving,\" he said.

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