Education

Detroit Public Schools worked to draw district alumni back to their
old schools for this Martin Luther King Day.

Thirty schools across the city are participating in the national day
of service, and former students are invited to join in.

Spokesman Steve Wasko said the district was searching for a way to
draw DPS alumni back to their former schools.

Roy Roberts, the state-appointed emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, will keep his job after the Michigan Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit attempting to remove him.

The Supreme Court refused to overturn an earlier decision by the Court of Appeals ruling that Roberts’ office remains in effect under Public Act 72—the state’s emergency financial manager law of 1990.

The lawsuit was brought by Robert Davis, a union activist and school board member in Highland Park.

The State Board of Education is in the early stages of putting together a new study to compare how Michigan’s charter and online schools are performing.

John Austin, the board’s president, said it's important to give parents information about the quality of the schools as the number of charter and online institutions in the state increases.

"What we want to do is make sure that until we get some quality control that we're having very strong accountability and public transparency," Austin said.