23 Detroit schools face closure

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more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-04-09-detroit-public-schools_N.htm

23 Detroit schools face closure

DETROIT — More than 7,500 Detroit children may have to change schools in the fall as a result of 23 proposed school closures and one relocation, according to a proposal released Thursday.
In addition, Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, said 600 teachers will get layoff letters as DPS wrangles with a $305-million deficit.

The mass closing would be the third this decade for DPS, which has shuttered 70 buildings as enrollment plummeted from 173,848 a decade ago to about 95,000 today. Another 30 of the district's roughly 200 schools could close in 2010.

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1. Detroit and Michigan are in a severe economic depression.

Other cities and states will follow with massive school closings. There is no such thing as a jobless economic recovery despite what washington, wall street and the corporate criminals tell YOU.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. One of my landlords decades ago bought an old school and converted it into apartments.

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It was quite nice really - wide halls, lots of windows and solid.

Great big yard for all the tenants too!