Thompson and Skillman Foundations recently formalized their partnership to spend $200 million on building charter high schools in Detroit. The first urban charter high school could open as early as 2006.
Read about how some kids from Detroit and its suburbs, volunteered their time this summer painting elementary school gyms, tending gardens and helping third-graders read.
"A rapid transit system between Ann Arbor and Detroit, long considered merely an expensive dream, has gained momentum with an expected $100 million in federal funding for an engineering study. " says the article...
Economic-development experts seem to agree: racial fighting blocks development. Diversity, on the other hand, can help spur it, says Keith Schneider, deputy director of the Michigan Land Use Institute.
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