Corruption in Detroit schools

Years of liberal corruption have finally caught up with the city, its employees, its unions, its businesses, its schools....

In an effort to narrow its budget deficit, the district plans to close 29 schools, allow private companies to take over 17 of the districts 22 high schools and lay off more than 2,500 of its 13,000 employees.

Plagued by poor test scores and occasionally by violence -- including multiple shootings near the locations of the district's biggest-ever summer-school program this year -- the district has lost about half its students since 2001. Partly due to attrition, the district only graduates around one in four students who enroll in ninth grade, according to some estimates.