Better schools a key to a better Detroit, Detroit News says

Better schools are key to helping to attract families to the city, the Detroit News says.Excerpt:Hotels, rail systems, stadiums, even public housing cannot refill
Detroit’s neighborhoods if families see no future for their children
south of Eight Mile. Infrastructure crumbles in time. An educated child
grows, prospers and bears another generation of educated citizens. That’s
why Congress and the Obama administration should create a
federally-funded pilot program for private and charter schools in
Detroit. Funding of perhaps $5,000 per student could go to any
Detroit child attending a school within city limits. The federal
involvement would overcome the state constitutional ban on government
funding for K-12 private schools and the cap on charter schools. The
location requirement would help build neighborhood schools and
redevelop neighborhoods. Read the entire article here.