Detroit Public Schools and representatives of some of the area’s leading arts organizations on Monday announced a groundbreaking partnership intended to transform the Detroit School of Arts into America’s top public arts school through a new collaborative governance with prestigious arts and education institutions. A new governing council for DSA, which is expected to lead to significant [Read more…]
Michigan’s director of the Schools to Watch program, Dr. Nic Cooper, has announced three new schools to be designated this year and DPS’ Ludington Magnet Middle to be re-designated as “Schools to Watch.” These schools are exemplars of middle level education in the state and join 9 other schools that have been designated in the past 6 years. The Schools to Watch designation is meant to [Read more…]
Teacher Interview Schedule fall 2012
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Carl Ingram
Program Associate
Phone: (313) 945-8600
Fax: (313) 945-5219
Quality Assurance Department seeks to assure compliance with optimal safety and efficiency standards in the transportation of students. Assigned tasks includes monitoring drivers for on-time arrivals and vehicle cleanliness, visiting schools to investigate and resolve specific issues, ensuring that school bus driving mandates are being adhered to, inspecting wheel-chair buses to ensure properly equipped i.e. have harasses and safety belts and lifts work, assisting with collecting cab driver background investigation information, performing railroad inspections, spot checking field trip services, assisting with ensuring buses depart terminals timely and arrive at schools timely, checking to ensure pre-post trip inspections are performed daily and meeting weekly with school administrators on quality service being performed.