Name: Inside Detroit's Failing Public Schools
Uploaded: 2020-02-27T00:22:01.000Z
Duration: 4 min 27 s
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High school drop out rates are more than twice the national average.

And teachers are striking over dangerously dilapidated buildings,

Detroit has closed more than two-thirds of its buildings since 2000.

Leaving many of them boarded up, abandoned and ripe for looting.

With the district more than three and a half billion dollars in debt

and students leaving for charter schools in the suburbs,

"Detroit. Birthplace of the production line

and the new idea that almost everybody could have a car."

Detroit's population boomed at the turn of the 20th century.

And the city pushed its borders farther and farther out.

hit one and a half million 30 years later.

built to accommodate the growing demand for education.

Detroit public schools saw nearly 300,000 students walk

But Detroit couldn't sustain the pace of growth.

And nearly as fast as it grew, Detroit collapsed.

"We hereby officially request the immediate deployment

to assist state and local authorities in reestablishing law and order

Detroit saw its families and tax revenue moved to the suburbs.

White flight increased as racial desegregation went into effect.

And with auto plants relocating to the suburbs,

more than 50,000 white students left the district.

The flight from Detroit robbed schools of badly needed

resources and lead to 6 teacher strikes in 25 years.

Declining enrollment was compounded by financial mismanagement.

One big example is South Western high school.

their swimming pool was shut down in the 1990's

I believe because it couldn't pass the health inspection.

The district allocated a significant amount of money to repairing the pool.

This has only gotten worse in recent decades.

upgrading schools that were closed within a few years.

Closing a school can rapidly accelerate the decline

of neighborhoods in a city that is already hollowing out.

Property values drop, kids travel longer distances

to school, and communities fall into disrepair.

"When you tell people that you go to a Detroit public school

"From my house to Western, it's a two hour bus ride.

I wake up at 5:30 am every single morning."

so it's really hard to do your homework if you don't have internet access.

For the ones who don't have internet access,

Today, less than 50,000 students attend Detroit public schools.

A public school hasn't closed in two years.

But without a lasting fix, a complete turn around seems

As Michigan's law makers construct a long term solution

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