State of Opportunity from Michigan Radio
Summary: State of Opportunity exposes the barriers Michigan children of low income families face in achieving success.
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In 1973, when the NAACP challenged school segregation in Detroit, schools were more diverse than they are today. Back then, about a third of Detroit...
Next week marks the 40th anniversary of the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case about busing and segregation in Detroit’s schools. The...
Just north of downtown Detroit following Woodward Avenue is Ferndale. It's a community that cultivates an image as hip and edgy, for a suburb, and...
For a few months now, I've been working on a series about the end of the neighborhood school as most people know it in Detroit . The stories will air...
Last week I finally got to meet up with some students I've been in touch with over email for a long time. Chris Reynolds first told me about his...
Welcome to our new weekly "outtakes" blog posts! When we're out in the field, we get TONS of tape. I'm no percentologist (TM), but I'm guessing I...
Full podcast version of our Be a Man doc
More than 90% of school children in Lake County qualify for free or reduced price lunch. To make sure they continue to eat healthy meals once school is out
Lake County in central northern Michigan is the poorest part of the state, with nearly half of all its children living in poverty. That’s according to the
The roughly 14,000 young people in Michigan’s foster care system are expected to live on their own once they turn 18, if they're still in the system at
More than 400,000 children are currently in foster care in the U.S. Once a child has entered the system, they remain there on average for nearly two years,
The latest Kids Count data show that roughly 11,000 teens gave birth in Michigan in 2010. Statistically speaking, teen parents are more likely to drop out
Earlier this month, we came across this article in the Washingtonian entitled "Children Are Dying." It blew our minds. Could babies really be dying in
School is almost out for summer! For some students, that means camp. For others, it means time to get a job. For the three high school sophomores you’re
A few weeks ago I took the State of Opportunity storytelling booth to J.W. Sexton High School in Lansing. The school is a sand-colored art deco masterpiece
