DPS LOSES 'FIRST CLASS SCHOOL DISTRICT' STATUS

Category: Chronicle Archives Published on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 20:00 Written by Michigan Chronicle

Attorney General Mike Cox recently published an official opinion asserting that because the Detroit Public Schools has fallen below the 100,000 enrollment mary necessary to maintain its status in state law as a “first class school district,” DPS is a “general powers” school district.

Cox’s opinion was written in response to an inquiry from Mike Flanagan, superintendent of public education.