Push22 owner Mike Verville read about Beyond Basics in a recent Crain’s Detroit Business article. He was in the process of moving his office to another location and wanted to donate his office furniture to our organization. He reached out to us and we gratefully accepted.
After conducting a nationwide search, the Detroit Public Schools Community District on Saturday announced three finalists for superintendent: Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of Duval County (Florida) Public Schools Derrick R. Coleman, superintendent of the River Rouge district Orlando Ramos, regional superintendent for …
The battle against Detroit’s illiteracy crisis is fought one child at a time. Consider the story of Elijah Craft, a towering 6-foot, 6-inch 12th-grader at Central High School, where he plays football, basketball and baseball.
The State of Michigan is putting off making a decision on whether to close as many as 38 chronically failing schools, according to a news release from Gov. Rick Snyder’s office this afternoon.
Both interns and staff members from UHY Advisors‘ Michigan practice took a day off from busy season earlier this month and visited students from Burton International Academy in Detroit.
Veronica Conforme, the chancellor of the soon-to-be-defunct Education Achievement Authority, was hired this week to lead a nonprofit organization that works to turn around chronically failing schools in Massachusetts.
Keith Famie short film about Beyond Basics, Elijah’s story, and illiteracy in Detroit …
About 100 students from Detroit’s Mumford High School visited Baker College in Auburn Hills Tuesday, Jan. 31, for a lesson in literacy, personal goals and professional skills needed for the workplace….
Dream big. Take risks. Don’t be afraid to fail. Challenge authority. Give back to pull others forward. Those were among the takeaways presented to 64 Mumford High School ninth-graders during a leadership day event Tuesday at Baker College’s Auburn Hills campus.
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