The Echo

Published Online: March 21, 2011

New Urban Playbook: Hand Over Schools to Charter Operators
"The financially embattled Detroit school system has announced a controversial plan to turn nearly a third of the district’s 141 schools over to charter operators or education-management organizations by next school year. Officials say their only other option is to close dozens of low-performing schools."

More here:  http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/03/21/26detroit.h30.html?tkn=PPMFhrdg%2FMnyc3IPWmjcoeC90sBxE8a4BLpM&cmp=clp-edweek