Bates Academy eliminates music program, transfers popular teacher
The Detroit Public Schools Community District rejected claims by music teacher Kay Thomas that her position was eliminated because of her absences.
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The Detroit Public Schools Community District rejected claims by music teacher Kay Thomas that her position was eliminated because of her absences.
Activists want disciplinary action taken against the Detroit officers who shot and killed a mentally ill Black man.
Detroit community leaders and Michigan criminal justice experts hailed the Tuesday guilty verdicts against former Minneapolis police officer DerekA Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, but some said it didn't lessen the urgent need for police reform in the United States. A jury deliberated less than day and found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. It followed the playing in court of a 9-minute video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck last May. "Justice won," the Rev. Charles Williams II said Tuesday. “But we must ask ourselve...