September 29, 2009 (vol. 120, iss. 16) • Page Image 3
… scrawl skywriting above the city's riverfront will be enough to boost the struggling district's enrollment. The $500,000 "I'm In" cam- paign to get students into school ends tomorrow. State aid to each…
… district is based on enroll- ment numbers submitted from Wednesday's fall count and a winter count last February. The district says that each student leaving Detroit Public Schools means $7,550 less in state…
… aid. Detroit dropped below 100,000 students last year and has budgeted for 83,777 this fall. As part ofthe campaign, emer- gency financial manager Robert Bobb has gone door-to-door in recent weeks…
… to shutter the jail. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brook DeWalt, a spokesman for the prison that holds about 223 men, said yester- day the list in Arabic, Pashto and English was posted in common areas throughout the…
… make it possible to balance the budget without tax increases. But some Democrats want more money to save high priority programs, caus- ing a divide within the party. Nearly 100,000 college students were…






