Governor Gives Academically Failed Detroit Schools a Three-Year Pass

Governor Gives Academically Failed Detroit Schools a Three-Year Pass [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The demand by the media and Democratic politicians for more oversight in Michigan’s public schools has been almost entirely focused on charter schools.
Yet, consider the academically failing schools run by a district that has been riddled with corruption for more than a decade. 
That district, in which more than half the schools are failing academically, recently received a $617 million state bailout because it was insolvent. 
And now, Gov. Snyder just handed the district's schools a three-year pass on the threat of closure.
...Charter schools, however, can still be closed within the city of Detroit..."