What A Year It Has Been

Jul 2, 2014 | Blogs, Message from Dr. Price

As we come to the close of the school year, and the end of the Foundation’s fiscal year, it is natural to look back and reflect on our activities, partnerships, successes, and challenges. During the 2013-2014 year we have experienced excitement, productive grant...

Loretta C. Gates: Pershing Class of January 1955

Jun 16, 2014 | Blogs

[column type=”1/4″] [/column] [column type=”3/4″ last=”true”] I attended Greenfield Park Elementary until my family moved and then I transferred to Greenfield Union in the fifth grade.  At that time, Greenfield Union only went to...

We Believe

May 13, 2014 | Blogs, Message from Dr. Price

As the board and staff of the Detroit Public Schools Foundation goes about its work of supporting students within the Detroit Public Schools, we do so with a set of beliefs which guide our efforts and decisions. At the center of our work is a commitment to ensure that...

Raymond Lozano: Cinco De Mayo And Its Importance To Us

May 2, 2014 | Blogs

[column type=”1/4″] [/column] [column type=”3/4″ last=”true”] You have to see the surprised look in someone’s face when I explain that Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day.  I go on to tell them that Mexico...

Terry Blackhawk: Poets In Our Schools

May 1, 2014 | Blogs

“Since feeling is first”…the poet writes… “who pays any attention/ to the syntax of things/ will never wholly kiss you.” (e. e. cummings) Or, alternately, “A little Madness in the Spring/ Is wholesome even for the King.”  (Emily Dickinson) As we look back on a busy...