Detroit Public Schools
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Detroit, Michigan United States |
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| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1842 |
| Superintendent | Lamont Satchel |
| Budget | US$ 666,651,276 (2016) |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 47,959 (2014–15) |
| Teachers | 3,235 (2012-13) |
| Staff | 15,535 (2007) |
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| Emergency Manager | Darnell Earley |
| Number of schools | 97 (2015-2016) |
| Teachers' unions | Detroit Federation of Teachers |
| Website | http://detroitk12.org/ |
Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD), formerly Detroit Public Schools (DPS), is a school district that covers all of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States and high school students in the insular city of Highland Park. It provides services to 48,000 students, making it the largest school district in the state. The district has its headquarters in the Fisher Building of the New Center area of Detroit.
The school district has experience extensive financial difficulties over a series of years. From 1999 to 2005, and from 2009 to the present, the district has been under a state of a financial emergency and has been overseen by a succession of state-appointed emergency financial managers. Besides DPS, the Education Achievement Authority (EAA) operates 15 of the district's schools totalling 6,556 students as of the 2014-15 school year.
Established in 1842, Detroit Public Schools has grown in area with the city. Some of the schools in the district began as part of other school districts, such as various Greenfield Township and Springwells Township districts before these districts were made part of the Detroit Public Schools as the areas they covered were annexed to the city of Detroit.
In 1917, the board membership was changed from ward-based to at-large elections.
In 1999, the Michigan Legislature removed the locally elected board of education amid allegations of mismanagement and replaced it with a 7-member reform board. Six board members were appointed by the mayor and one appointed by the state superintendent of public instruction. The elected board of education returned following a city referendum in 2005. The first election of the new eleven member board of education, with four chosen at-large and seven by district, occurred on November 8, 2005. At the time the district's enrollment was slowly increasing and it had a $100 million surplus .
Before the district occupied the Fisher Building, its headquarters were in the Macabees Building in Midtown Detroit. The district paid the owner of the Fisher Building $24.1 million in 2002 so the district could occupy five floors in the building. This was more than the owner of the Fisher Building paid to buy the building one year earlier. The district's emergency financial manager, Robert Bobb, said in 2009 that he was investigating how the school board agreed to the lease in the Fisher Building. Reginald Turner, who served on Detroit School Board from 2000 to 2003, said that he was told that it would be less expensive to occupy the Fisher Building than it would to remodel the Maccabees Building.
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