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45 Detroit Schools Slated for Closing Under Plan

by Associated Press, Posted Mar 17th 2010 1:10PM

DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Public Schools are considering closing 45 schools in the next five years because students are leaving the district. The district's emergency financial manager Robert Bobb on Wednesday plans to release the possible closing ...
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Detroit School Asks Parents to Donate Toilet Paper

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Jan 10th 2009 3:00PM

It's not unusual for teachers to ask parents to send in items that make the classroom run more smoothly -- Kleenex, for example, disinfecting wipes, or hand sanitizer. But a Detroit elementary school's recent requests are far more basic ... and ...
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Make your school board listen by throwing grapes at them

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Aug 25th 2007 11:01AM

Whenever I talk to older friends about their dealings with the school board, I get more or less the same response: "It's tough." And really, that's not surprising -- what are the odds that a handful of people, with incredibly limited resources, who ...
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School says no to MySpace -- even at home

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Mar 27th 2007 12:08PM

Many schools have an internet policy that prohibits non-school activities such as updating one's MySpace account from school computers. St. Hugo of the Hills, a catholic school near Detroit, Michigan, however, has taken it one step further. According ...
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Lawsuit filed in 911 tragedy

by Melissa Summers, Posted Apr 11th 2006 7:32AM

A lawsuit has been filed in Detroit against two unnamed dispatchers involved in the alleged wrongful death of Sherrill Turner who's 5-year-old's 911 call was assumed a prank and not responded to for at least an hour (see our earlier coverage here). ...
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Eminem gets permit to remarry ex-wife Kim

by J.D. Griffioen, Posted Jan 13th 2006 6:00PM

In early December we brought you the news that Detroit rapper Eminem was reconciling with his wife.  Now Reuters is reporting that Marshall and Kim Mathers officially applied for another marriage license in Macomb County, just north of Detroit ...
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