In the Detroit public schools, 35 guns were seized in 1994-95, compared with 81 the year before.

His father was an elementary school teacher for special-needs children in the Detroit public schools.

He subsequently became a teacher in the Detroit public schools.

On his return home, he continued working for the Detroit schools and universities.

Some Detroit schools are trying to succeed despite the district's difficulties.

But many of the problems in Detroit schools reflect those of the city itself.

In 2007, she led a monthlong residency program with 40 art students from Detroit public high schools.

Detroit schools, for example, have imposed a 200-hour minimum for high school students.

Before long, the wildly successful dance parties spread to several metropolitan Detroit schools.

The majority held to a fiction that Detroit schools could be desegregated on their own, and ordered the lower court to do so.