Whitmer's Michigan: Detroit ranked worst urban schools - Math, reading proficiency in single digits - The Midwesterner

Detroit Public Schools Community District ranked dead last in NEAP’s Trial Urban District Assessment - By Victor Skinner 

With Detroit student proficiency in single digits, the district continues its tradition as the worst performer among more than 20 of the largest school districts in the nation.

• While recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show students in Michigan continue to lag behind their peers in other states five years after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s pandemic edicts shuttered schools to in-person instruction for nearly a year, the data in Detroit is on a whole different level of disappointment.
• “To address the elephant in the room, we still rank last among (urban) districts in each tested area,” Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said in a statement cited by The Detroit News...