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(CBS DETROIT) - The Detroit Public Schools Community District showed a strong improvement in high school graduation rates for the 2021-2022 school year.

FIRST KNOWN AS CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL (the 1800s) The first high school in the City of Detroit was established in a new building on Miami Street (Broadway) in 1859, on a site used by the Detroit Board of Education.

Detroit Public Schools Community District is an Accredited Authorizer that authorizes 7 public school academies that serve students in a variety of settings and models from kindergarten through high school.

There have been about 200 school closures since 2000. Some have been repurposed, while others were torn down, most remain vacant though, although the exact number is unclear. ing to Detroiturbex.com, there are 56 abandoned schools to this day, while 36 have been demolished and 2 have been renovated.

The district now had too many schools and not enough students. So, starting in the 1970s, it began to close buildings.

In 2016 the Michigan Legislature created the Detroit Public Schools Community District to replace the original Detroit Public Schools, which exists to repay debts. It had 45,000 students in 2017. The new district will have an elected board.

At the heart of the alleged scheme is businessman Norman Shy, 74, of Franklin, who is accused of paying $908,500 in kickbacks and bribes to at least 12 Detroit Public Schools principals who used him as a school supply vendor in exchange for money — some for as little as $4,000, another for $324,000.

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