Improving student enrollment has been a priority for DPSCD and districts across Michigan, especially in recent years given the pandemic’s impact.
Christine Ferretti
Christine Ferretti is BridgeDetroit's managing editor, bringing 20 years of reporting and editing experience from The Detroit News, where she spent nearly a decade leading Detroit City Hall coverage, including the city's historic municipal bankruptcy. Her reporting has been recognized by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Michigan Press Association.
Ferretti holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and public relations from Madonna University and has completed fellowships with the National Press Foundation and Michigan State University's Great Lakes Environmental Journalism Training Institute.
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District spotlights how COVID relief money is helping to address staffing
Detroit school board approves academic calendar, school code of conduct, and contract extension with the literacy tutoring nonprofit Beyond Basics.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Political and Public Policy Information
Detroit’s Election Commission to take up proposed marijuana ballot measure
City Charter allows Detroit 60 days to enact the proposal as a new ordinance or have the Election Commission determine whether the language can lawfully be placed on the ballot.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
Monkeypox vaccines now available to Detroiters
The vaccine will be used as first doses with initial allocations Detroit received from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Posted inCivic and Community Information
Detroit’s second chance to preserve the legacy of a civil rights hero
The land bank is accepting proposals to rehabilitate or reimagine the former home of Sarah Elizabeth Ray and the neighboring vacant lot that housed the youth center she founded.
Posted inEducation
Detroit superintendent’s wife leaves literacy nonprofit following backlash over contract
The resignation came amid questions and criticism from some in the community about the superintendent’s family connection to a company that received a multimillion-dollar tutoring contract funded in part with federal COVID aid.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
Detroit urges calm in response to city’s first monkeypox case
City health officials say the risk to the general public is low, but residents should be aware of the signs and symptoms of monkeypox, and how the virus can be transmitted.
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Demolition contractor ordered to fix soil at demolition sites, test others
A total of 200 residential lots related to demolitions Den-Man conducted in 2017 and 2018 were flagged earlier this year by a representative of the Special Inspector General of the federal Troubled Asset Relief Plan, or SIGTARP.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
Abortion ruling heightens fear over unequal access to care in Detroit
For Black women, a ban on abortion could mean a 33% jump in maternal mortality. In majority-Black Detroit, an end to the constitutional right is expected to create worse outcomes.
Posted inTransportation
DDOT drivers who show up for work to get quarterly bonuses
The bonus program is expected to cost the city up to $2 million and it would be funded through existing revenues.