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![MORSE Code College Scholarship Contest Offers DPS Students Up to $25,000 [VIDEO]](http://cdn.wchbnewsdetroit.com/files/2012/01/morsecode-200x72.jpg "MORSE Code College Scholarship Contest Offers DPS Students Up to $25,000 [VIDEO]")
Detroit Public School students (2012 & 2013 graduating classes) have a chance to earn $2,000-$5,000 in college scholarships by entering the MORSE Code (Make Our Roads Safe Everywhere) Contest.
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An unusually divided state Board of Education couldn’t agree Tuesday on how to advise the Michigan Legislature on a package of bills that would allow an unlimited number of charter schools to open statewide, among other changes.
Read More![U.S. Secretary of Education visits Detroit Public Schools [VIDEO]](http://cdn.wchbnewsdetroit.com/files/2011/09/Arne_Duncan_visit_thumb.jpg "U.S. Secretary of Education visits Detroit Public Schools [VIDEO]")
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Detroit Public Schools along with a panel of distinguished guest speakers including Gov. Rick Snyder and Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, to discuss the present and future of Detroit Public Schools.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave the Motor City a homework assignment Thursday.
“Can Detroit become the fastest-improving urban district in the country?” Duncan asked Detroiters packed into the auditorium of the Charles H. Wright Academy of Arts and Sciences. “I see no reason why that can’t happen.”
Read More![[PICS & VIDEO] 2011 DPS Education and Enrollment Expo and Parade](http://cdn.wchbnewsdetroit.com/files/2011/08/DPS_Parade_thumb1.jpg "[PICS & VIDEO] 2011 DPS Education and Enrollment Expo and Parade")
This year’s DPS Parade featured 40 units, 10 floats, celebrity Grand Martial, Vickie Winans along with Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and of course a number of excited DPS students. In case you missed it, or would like to see it again, enjoy the photos and video presentation of this year’s DPS Education and Enrollment Expo and Parade, courtesy of Radio One Detroit.
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Building Resources In Detroit, Giving Expanded Service initiative begun as a way to develop solutions, for community, policing and youth violence prevention for Detroit area youth during the summer.
Read More![Snyder Taps Roy Roberts to Head Detroit Schools [VIDEO]](http://cdn.wchbnewsdetroit.com/files/2011/05/roy-roberts-200x150.jpg "Snyder Taps Roy Roberts to Head Detroit Schools [VIDEO]")
Gov. Rick Snyder appointed a former General Motors Corp. executive on Wednesday to take over the daunting job of emergency manager for Detroit Public Schools, tasking him with turning around a district that has battled financial problems and declining enrollment for more than a decade.
Read More![School Board reacts to losing control and Robert Bobb taking over [VIDEO]](http://cdn.wchbnewsdetroit.com/files/2011/03/bobb-200x150.jpg "School Board reacts to losing control and Robert Bobb taking over [VIDEO]")
Detroit School Board President Anthony Adams says he and the rest of the board still want to have a part in educating the district’s children, even though Robert Bobb has all of the power now under the Governor’s new law regarding Emergency Financial Managers.
Read More![Charter School Proposal Could Save 41 Struggling Detroit Public Schools [VIDEO]](http://cdn.wchbnewsdetroit.com/files/2011/03/robert_bobb-200x150.jpg "Charter School Proposal Could Save 41 Struggling Detroit Public Schools [VIDEO]")
new proposal from Detroit Public Schools’ emergency financial manager would turn over operation of 41 struggling schools to outside groups or charter school operators. The district says Robert Bobb’s plan would cut operating costs by up to $99 million and address declining enrollment.
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