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Direct linkGehring, John – Education Week, 2005
Across the U.S., urban school districts are losing students and shuttering schools. In Detroit, some 35,000 students have left the city schools in less than a decade, and the city will close 34 schools and reassign more than 10,000 students in 2006. However, the trend is not limited to Rust Belt cities like Detroit, although their problems tend to…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, School Districts, Declining Enrollment
