In post-election interviews, Tuesday’s winners cited chronic absenteeism, enrollment declines, student homelessness, equitable school funding, and academic achievement as their priorities.
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Tyrone Winfrey Sr., a longtime educator and advocate for Detroit’s youth who helped many of them to go to college, died Saturday. He was 63.
Winfrey, who was born and…
Winfrey most recently served as head of community outreach for the Detroit Public Schools Community District, a role that benefited from his years forging connections with city residents.
The Detroit district’s poor performance on NAEP, better known as “the nation’s report card,” adds new urgency to its long-term reform efforts, which seek to bolster student achievement, test scores and attendance rates