If more than 25 percent are leaving every year, that tells me the teachers don't want to be there. I spent 22 years operating a private school in Detroit. We lost only three teachers during that time. And our pay scale was only 50 percent of what the public schools paid. The teachers wanted to be there.
Every school is required to have a school improvement plan on file.
There's a group of parents in Bay Port, in Michigan's thumb, who want a charter school. They have no choice. They have no elementary school in their town. They have an empty elementary building there, but they can't use it. He was entering a gifted program, but the system in Flint operated on preconceived notions and stereotypes.