Teacher Absences Close 80+ DPS Schools

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Several Detroit Public Schools are closed Wednesday due to a high number of teacher absences. The district listed the closures on its web site and its Facebook page, and also advised staff assigned to those buildings to report for work as usual or take a leave day if they don’t. As of 7:30 a.m., these schools were OPEN:

Communication Media Arts
Chrysler
Fleming
Greenfield Union 
Pulaski
Priest
Vernor
Western

The schools below are CLOSED:

Academy of Americas
AL Holmes
Ann Arbor Trail
Bagley
Bates
Benjamin Carson
Bennett
Blackwell
Bow
Breithaupt
Brewer
Bunche
Burton International
Carleton 
Carstens
Carver
Cass Tech
Clark
Clemente
Clippert
Cody APL
Cody DIT
Cody Medicine
Cooke
Crockett CTC
Davis Aerospace
Davison
DCP @ Northwestern
Detroit International Academy
Detroit Lions Academy
Detroit School of the Arts
Diane Banks Williamson
Dixon
Dossin (NEW)
Douglass
Drew
Durfee
Duke Ellington
Earhart
East English Village
Edison
Emerson
Fisher Lower
Fisher Upper
FLICS
Gardner
Garvey
Golightly CTC
Gompers
Harms
Henderson
Hutchinson
Keidan
JR King
ML King, Jr. HS
Ludington
MacKenzie
Mann
Mark Twain 
Marquette
Thurgood Marshall (NEW)
Mason
Maybury
Moses Field Center
Munger
Neinas 
Nichols
Osborn Evergreen
Osborn Math
Osborn Prep
Palmer Park
Pasteur
Randolph
Renaissance High School
Robeson (NEW)
Ronald Brown
Sampson
Schulze
Spain
Thirkell
Turning Point 
Wayne
West Side Academy
JL White
Charles Wright
Coleman Young

 

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  • Pat Batcheller is a host and Senior News Editor for 101.9 WDET, presenting local news, traffic and weather updates during Morning Edition. He is an amateur musician.