Search:

We don't disagree, and frankly, I'm in no position to disagree. I don't know that much about DPS, and so I'm asking sincere questions to gauge opinion from those who do know something about it.
...

Are you suggesting that DPS did not improve when school funding was substantially detached from property taxes?

Certainly "funding is necessary". With zero funding, you would have no school. ...

And I think the fact that public school funding was already significantly detached from property taxes raises a couple of interesting questions: i) did it improve the caliber of DPS and/or other...

Yep, the comments above were a simplification. We're not talking about making people who live outside Detroit pay for DPS. They already do. We're talking about making people who live outside...

I think this would harm the city more than it would help in the long term. What you're proposing is basically to make people that don't live in Detroit pay for Detroit Public Schools. That would...