Category: ABJ 50th

Making special education work during the pandemic

Sep 25, 2020

During One Detroit's Education Special: School Daze, the team took a look at how special education is being handled in districts, by getting a sense of teacher, parent, and administrative perspectives.

The State of Our Schools

Sep 24, 2020
One Detroit Education Special: School Daze

Sep 24, 2020
How COVID-19 is changing college for good

Sep 22, 2020
Chalkbeat Detroit: ‘Where are the kids?’ Inside the first day of online learning for one Detroit school

Sep 11, 2020
Returning to School: Students’ Hopes & Concerns

Sep 3, 2020
Silent Heroes: Michael Payne, Jr.

Aug 26, 2020
Return to Learn

Aug 20, 2020
Chalkbeat Detroit: 5 key questions that could shape the future of virtual learning in Michigan

Aug 11, 2020
Closing the reading gap in Detroit Public Schools

Aug 7, 2020
Chalkbeat Detroit: Watch Detroit teens speak about race and activism: ‘If you don’t advocate for yourself, no one will’

Aug 4, 2020
Reopening Wayne State University

Aug 3, 2020
Celebrating Student Milestones

Jul 23, 2020
John Lewis Remembered

Jul 18, 2020
HighScope: Ensuring adequate early childhood education & care

Jul 2, 2020
Education in the time of COVID: School plans

Jun 30, 2020
Mental health and the student mind

Jun 26, 2020
NBC News: When coronavirus closed schools, some Detroit students went missing from class. These educators had to find them.

Jun 23, 2020
Chalkbeat Detroit: Detroit valedictorians speak: ‘There won’t be another senior class that goes through what we went through’

Jun 19, 2020
COVID-313 Community Coalition Virtual Town Hall Week 12

Jun 13, 2020

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News From Around Detroit

Michigan cherry farmers could lose jobs, livelihoods amid tough competition from overseas
by Detroit Free Press (GANNETT Syndication Service)
Turkish cherries are being sold at 20% of the cost of those grown in Michigan. It's like buying a loaded, full-size import pickup for $10,000.
Despite tough times, Michigan's farmers say Trump has their back. Here's why
by Detroit Free Press (GANNETT Syndication Service)
Record payments from the federal government under President Trump have helped Michigan farmers, but they also like his positions on social issues.
Detroit lawyers say protesters conspired to disrupt peace and damage property
by Detroit Free Press (GANNETT Syndication Service)
In a response to a lawsuit Detroit Will Breathe filed, city lawyers said the group was incorporated, in part, for the purpose of militant resistance.
Mayor Mike Duggan, city of Detroit win national 'award' for secrecy
by Detroit Free Press (GANNETT Syndication Service)
Investigative Reporters and Editors gave the city of Detroit its annual "Golden Padlock Award" for being the country's most secretive agency.
Life after fires: Detroit, Ore. residents return to see, grieve
by Detroit Free Press (GANNETT Syndication Service)
'We'd seen the videos and pictures that were coming out. But to stand in front of it, it just becomes reality and thinking about what to do next.'

National Headlines

Who is Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's likely Supreme Court nominee?

Backlash from progressives was swift following media reports Friday that Trump intends to nominate Barrett on Saturday.
Lawmakers pay respects to Ginsburg, 1st woman to lie in state in U.S. Capitol

The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg broke two barriers Friday, becoming the first woman and the first Jewish American to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol. Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, the wife of a former Ginsburg law clerk, eulogized her as changing "the course of American law." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Joe and Jill Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris also attended. John Yang reports.
News Wrap: Breonna Taylor's family demands grand jury transcripts

In our news wrap Friday, Breonna Taylor's family demanded Louisville officials release transcripts from grand jury proceedings over whether to charge police in her death. Kentucky's attorney general said officers had acted in self-defense, after Taylor's boyfriend fired first. Also, the U.S. federal government has executed a Black inmate for the first time in nearly 20 years.