(AP) — Michigan on Friday ordered the closure of 38 chronically underperforming public schools in Detroit and other communities, marking the first time that traditional schools will be closed explicitly for academic reasons under state law. The announcement came in conjunction with the release of Michigan's school rankings, which are based on standardized test results, students' improvement over time and the gap between the best and worst pupils. Detroit activist group By Any Means Necessary and former Detroit teachers' union President Steve Conn said in a statement Friday that they were calling "on the people of Detroit to join us in building mass civil rights resistance in order to keep open every one of our precious Detroit public schools — by any means necessary." [...] Friday, the state had only once before ordered school closings for academic reasons.
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