The Detroit public school system is bankrupt--morally and financially--and it is black American school children and their parents who are most affected.
Detroit Public Schools: Bankrupting Minority Students’ Futures
Editor's note: The following is the second in a series of FrontPage articles that will unmask the racial injustice of Democrat-controlled education by examining some of the nation's worst (and biggest spending) school districts. To read about the Washington, DC public school system, click here.
In 2009, when the Detroit Public School (DPS) system was facing bankruptcy engendered by huge operating deficits and widespread corruption, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan characterized it as a "national disgrace." The disgrace, unfortunately, is much more than meets the eye: For all of the bankrupting spending, the school system's educational results for the 88 percent black student population remain abysmal. And yet the DPS is but a microcosm of the silent scandal haunting the Left, which controls the district and countless others across the nation in precisely the same circumstances. Throughout America, minority students find themselves conscripted into these institutions of misery, while the architects of their prisons remain accountable to no one.
