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"Shuttin' Detroit Down" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer John Rich, one half of the duo Big & Rich. The song addresses the issue of the government bailouts of financial institutions, and has received heavy rotation on Michigan radio stations, as well as others around the country.
We Almost Lost Detroit, a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller, [1] presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. [2] [3] It took four years for the reactor to be repaired, and then performance was poor.
Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is a school district that serves Detroit, Michigan and high school students in Highland Park, Michigan.The district, which replaced the original Detroit Public Schools (DPS) in 2016, provides services to approximately 50,000 students, [6] making it the largest school district in the state.
The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-1981 is a 1993 nonfiction book by Jeffrey Mirel, published by the University of Michigan Press. It discusses the rise and decline of Detroit Public Schools (DPS) in the 20th century, with the book's discussion focusing on the 1920s, the zenith of DPS, through the 1980s.
Before World War I, Detroit had about 4,000 Black people, 1% of its population. In the 1890s, journalist and founder of the black paper, Detroit Plaindealer, Robert Pelham Jr. and lawyer D. Augustus Straker worked in Detroit and throughout the state to create branches of the National Afro-American League.
The $46.3 million, 221,000-square-foot (20,500 m 2) campus has room for up to 1,200 students.It has four academic wings, including a performing arts wing. The school features a media center, an athletic complex with a community health clinic, and eight science laboratories.
The first high school was built in 1918 on the corner of Field and Frederick Street in Detroit. A new high school was then built in 1926 across the street, featuring 13 classrooms, laboratories, and a large study hall. St. Anthony was a member of the Michigan High School Athletic Association and competed athletically in the Catholic High School ...
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