Our Editorial: Detroit lawmakers should back DPS
With widespread teacher sickouts, buildings in poor condition and a district quickly going broke, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has started warming to the governor’s plan to overhaul the finances and...
View ArticleObama is only the third US President to check out the Detroit Auto Show
See Also Only three US presidents in history have visited the Detroit Auto Show in its century-plus of existence: Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1960, Bill Clinton in 1999, and now Barack Obama, this week. At...
View ArticleClinton: “Detroit students and teachers deserve better”
Detroit — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waded into the city’s public school sickout debate early Thursday, questioning the conditions inside school buildings. “No one would tolerate...
View ArticleDetroit schools are back in session. Is it 'school as usual'?
Detroit schools were back open Thursday after several days of scattered closings due to teacher protests, and the top priority for most officials is to keep them open. Public school teachers were...
View ArticleObama to Visit Detroit to Herald Auto Industry, With Flint’s Water Crisis as...
President Obama will travel to Detroit to celebrate the automobile industry bailout he put into effect during his first year in office. But the victory lap runs uncomfortably close to the latest crisis...
View ArticleObama tours auto show, pledges help for Flint’s water crisis
DETROIT — President Barack Obama hailed the revival of the nation’s auto industry on Wednesday while acknowledging the water crisis in nearby Flint, Mich., saying the detection of high levels of lead...
View ArticleDetroit Sickouts Close Nearly 100 Schools, Teachers Say Buildings Are Hazardous
Detroit sickouts closed nearly 100 schools on Wednesday, as teachers are demanding a healthier and safer working environment. According to reports, educators and their students are being exposed to...
View ArticleObama Claims Credit for Auto Industry Recovery
Mary Alice Salinas WHITE HOUSE— U.S. President Barack Obama says his move to provide troubled U.S. automakers a rescue package during his first year in office is a key reason why the American auto...
View ArticleTeacher Protests In Detroit Cause Schools To Close
DETROIT (AP) -- Most of Detroit's public schools closed for the day on Wednesday due to teacher absences, as disgruntled educators stepped up efforts to protest the governor's plans for the district,...
View ArticleBarack Obama to take in Detroit auto show, tout bailout results
U.S. President Barack Obama will take a victory lap Wednesday in Detroit with a tour of the North American International Auto Show. ......
View ArticleObama visit to Detroit auto show a chance to highlight success of bailout
U.S. President Barack Obama will take a victory lap Wednesday in Detroit with a tour of the North American International Auto Show. ......
View ArticleMost of Detroit's public schools closed amid teacher sick-out
DETROIT (AP) — Most of Detroit's public schools closed for the day on Wednesday due to teacher absences, as disgruntled educators stepped up efforts to protest the governor's plans for the district,...
View ArticleMost of Detroit's public schools close amid teacher sick-out
DETROIT (AP) - Most of Detroit's public schools closed for the day on Wednesday due to teacher absences, as disgruntled educators stepped up efforts to protest the governor's plans for the district,...
View ArticleNearly all of Detroit's schools closed due to sickouts coinciding with Obama...
(CNN)Nearly all of Detroit's public schools will be closed Wednesday in the latest, largest instance of staff calling in sick, en masse, to call attention to what they see as inadequate funding and...
View ArticleHowes: Obama’s auto bailout legacy fraught with choices
Nearly seven years ago, President Barack Obama defied Republicans, the polls and American tradition to rescue the Detroit auto industry from itself. The $85 billion gamble paid off. The U.S. Treasury...
View ArticlePresident to tout resurgence of Detroit, auto industry
President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive at Detroit Metropolitan Airport shortly after noon Wednesday to spend the afternoon touting the revival of Detroit and the automotive industry. Obama is...
View ArticleDetroit schools sue to try to stop teacher absences
DETROIT (AP) — Faced with another massive sick-out by teachers, the Detroit school district filed a lawsuit Wednesday to try to stop absences that have kept thousands of students at home and left...
View ArticleLatest: Amid sick-out, marchers decry Detroit schools state
Click photo to enlarge Teachers from Detroit area schools protest outside Cobo Center before President Barack Obama's visit to the auto show, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016, in Detroit. Most of Detroit's...
View ArticleObama highlights his administration's help to industry at Detroit Auto Show
President Obama praised the rival of American’s auto industry during a visit to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit yesterday, citing his administration’s influx of nearly $80 billion...
View ArticleDetroit's schools are in a state of 'crisis,' and nearly every one was closed...
Fliers are being passed around Detroit that depict damage to classrooms and dead rodents in hallways. Almost every public school in Detroit, Michigan was closed on Wednesday after teachers called out...
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