For the past several decades, Michigan’s largest school district has been among the state’s most troubled. In 1970, Detroit Public Schools had almost 300,000 students.

A Black elementary school principal in Eastpointe, Michigan, is accusing the district superintendent of racial discrimination. The principal filed a federal lawsuit last week in the U.S. District ...

The lawsuit, which was filed in the Michigan Court of Claims on Dec. 20, comes as an arm of the school district is set to pay off about $150 million of a massive debt that spurred the state to ...

LANSING — Federal judges gave final approval to a new map of Michigan state Legislature boundaries, concluding a case in which the court previously found that several Detroit-area districts ...