(AP) — It would be a mistake for state officials to start closing underperforming Michigan schools for academic reasons because it would devastate communities while not improving student achievement, concerned educators said Wednesday. Associations representing school boards, school administrators and urban districts spoke out before the impending release of a statewide list, issued annually, of the bottom 5 percent of public schools. In March of 2015, the Republican governor took control of an office charged with turning around the lowest-performing schools by transferring its functions to an agency whose director reports to him instead of the state Board of Education. In June, he signed a Republican-backed state bailout of Detroit's school district that also orders the closure of any traditional or independent charter school in the city that is among the lowest-achieving 5 percent of schools statewide for the preceding three years. Since 2010, the state has identified 331 "priority" schools in the lowest 5 percent.
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By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Wed, 08/24/2016 - 4:35pm
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