With growing charter schools enrollment as well as a continued exodus of population, the city planned to close many public schools.Hing, Julianne (March 17, 2010).Where Have All The Students Gone? . Color Lines.com. Retrieved on August 19, 2010. State officials report a 68% graduation rate for Detroit's public schools adjusted for those who change schools.Shultz, Marissa and Greg Wilkerson (June 13, 2007).Graduation rate. Detroit News. Retrieved on March 17, 2009.Detroit Public Schools news (June 15, 2007). Retrieved February 13, 2017. Traditional public and charter school students in the city have performed poorly on standardized tests. and 2011, while Detroit traditional public schools scored a record low on national tests, the publicly funded charter schools did even worse than the traditional public schools.Erb, Robin and Chastity Pratt Dawsey. "Detroit students' scores a record low on national test". Detroit Free Press. December 8, 2009. there were 30,000 excess openings in Detroit traditional public and charter schools, bearing in mind the number of K-12-aged children in the city. In 2016, Kate Zernike of The New York Times stated school performance did not improve despite the proliferation of charters, describing the situation as "lots of choice, with no good choice".
With growing charter schools enrollment as well as a continued exodus of population, the city planned to close many public schools.Hing, Julianne (March 17, 2010).Where Have All The Students Gone?  Color Lines.com. Retrieved on August 19, 2010 State officials report a 68% graduation rate for Detroit's public schools adjusted f.or those who change schools.Shultz, Marissa and Greg Wilkerson (June 13, 2007).Graduation rate. Detroit News. Retrieved on March 17, 2009.Detroit Public Schools news (June 15, 2007). Retrieved February 13, 2017. Traditional public and charter school students in the city have performed poorly on standardized tests. and 2011, while Detroit traditional public schools scored a record low on national tests, the publicly funded charter schools did even worse than the traditional public schools.Erb, Robin and Chastity Pratt Dawsey. "Detroit students' scores a record low on national test". Detroit Free Press December 8, 2009. there were 30,000 excess openings in Detroit traditional public and charter schools, bearing in mind the number of K-12-aged children. in the city. In 2016, Kate Zernike of The New York Times stated school performance did not improve despite the proliferation of charters, des.cribing the situation as "lots of choice, with no good choice".