DETROIT SCHOOLS
Educating our future for lasting success

The PLAN for DETROIT SCHOOLS

Our kids can’t succeed in schools with failing academics and crushing debt. Now is the time to act.
A strong city requires strong, thriving schools.

Financial Review Commission
Oversight of the Detroit Public
Schools’ finances

Detroit Education Commission

A public entity jointly appointed by the Michigan
Governor and Detroit Mayor that oversees
traditional and charter public schools in Detroit that
will hire the Detroit Education Manager

Detroit Education Manager
DPS
Focused on paying down
debts of Detroit Public Schools
Currently elected school
board
Current DPS Emergency
Manager

Responsible for ensuring academic
standards and managing universal
enrollment system

city of Detroit
Education District
Focused on educating
students in Detroit Public
Schools
Board appointed by
Michigan Governor
and Detroit Mayor with
gradual return to elected
board.

traditional public
schools in detroit

Charters
in Detroit