State: Detroit Public Schools current on reports

The Detroit Public Schools system is the model for how not to run a school system; inept, corrupt, and stupid.

State: Detroit Public Schools current on reports
2/26/2009, 1:48 p.m. EST
The Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan education officials say the Detroit Public Schools is up to date on documents required under a state-mandated consent agreement.

Education department spokeswoman Jan Ellis said Thursday the cash-strapped district has been able to prove it submitted the reports by mail or e-mail. The state initially believed a small number of the records had not been turned in.

Ellis says the documents included reports on district outsourcing, a facilities list, Council of the Great City Schools Implementation Report and service consolidation.

The state says the district is in a financial emergency and has appointed an outside manager to oversee its finances.

The district faces a budget shortfall of about $139 million for this fiscal year.

And now that system wins big thanks to Obama:

Michigan schools set to win big in stimulus

Granholm, lawmakers still debating final choices; utilities, cities want help too

BY CHRIS CHRISTOFF • FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU CHIEF • March 6, 2009

LANSING — Detroit Public Schools stands to reap $530 million — $355 million with no strings attached — from the federal stimulus package that will hand Michigan nearly $7 billion over two or three years.

That appears to make the district, which has an estimated $150-million deficit and finances so tangled the state recently appointed a manager to take the financial reins, the biggest Michigan winner in the stimulus sweepstakes.

I'm all for supporting better education... but no strings attached?