Three months after taking on one of the most daunting tasks in American education, Nikolai Vitti was having a fit over pizza — $340,000 worth of pizza. Vitti, Detroit’s new school superintendent, had just discovered that the district had set aside that eye-popping sum of money last year to pay Domino’s Pizza for what he […]
On a superintendent’s first day, just another Tuesday for 37 Detroit first-graders with no music or art or gym
Spend a morning in a Detroit classroom and it quickly becomes clear exactly how much will have to change in this city before it looks anything like the “mecca” that Vitti imagines. Read more…
The Extreme Sacrifice Detroit Parents Make to Access Better Schools
Some parents have to travel six hours and take up to eight buses each day to take their kids to better schools outside of their neighborhoods. Read more…