In this thesis, paper there would be a dispute about Detroit Public Schools and the districts money. If all Detroit Public Schools (dps) get the same amount of resource, then all dps school would have the amount of an opportunity to get a high education on different levels. By providing the resource brighten the minds of students and gives them the exposure that they need to be successful. History In 1842 the Detroit Public School Community District was assembled. Grover (from LOVELAND TECHNOLOGIES )explained that the entire history of Detroit Public School District and its struggle to get it right begin in 1850. Some of the problems that Detroit public schools are facing today have routed back to the dates of the 1850s and 1860s …show more content…
The Detroit Public Schools’ Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2014 says the school district served “an estimated 48,905 students” during that fiscal year. “Of the District’s total operating expenditures of approximately $721 million, 48 percent or approximately $346 million, was spent on instruction for the year ended on June 30, 2014,” said the report (cnsnew). The Detroit Public Schools’ Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2014 says the school district served “an estimated 48,905 students” during that fiscal year. “Of the District’s total operating expenditures of approximately $721 million, 48 percent or approximately $346 million, was spent on instruction for the year ended on June 30, 2014,” said the reporter (from cnsnews) . Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math By Terence P. Jeffrey and by Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep. John Boehner, President George Bush signs the No Child Left behind Act in January …show more content…
Only 4 percent of Detroit public school eighth graders are proficient or better in math and only 7 percent in reading. This is despite the fact that in the 2011-2012 school year—the latest for which the Department of Education has reported the financial data—the Detroit public schools had “total expenditures” of $18,361 per student and “current expenditures” of $13,330 per student. _-According to data published by the Detroit Public Schools, the school district’s operating expenses in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2014 amounted to approximately $14,743 per student. Nationwide, only 33 percent of public-school eighth graders scored proficient or better in reading in 2015 and only 32 percent scored proficient or better in mathematics. ______In 2015, 21 large urban school districts participated in the NAEP tests in reading and mathematics as part of what the Department of Education calls its Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA). Among these 21 districts, the Detroit Public Schools had the smallest percentages of eighth graders scoring proficient or better in reading and