FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on the sick-out by teachers that's closed dozens of Detroit schools on Monday (all times local): 
 
 10:30 a.m. 
 
 Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says a sick-out that has closed all but three of Detroit's public schools is "not constructive" and hampers efforts to persuade lawmakers to approve a $720 million rescue package for the ailing district. 
 
 The governor told reporters in Flint on Monday that he hopes the House approves the Senate-passed legislation this month, but the sick-out "probably raises more questions and challenges to legislators." 
 
 The Detroit Federation of Teachers urged members to call out sick amid concerns the district couldn't pay teachers. 
 
 Snyder says he is focused on enacting the comprehensive plan to pay off the district's enormous debt and create a new district but also is thinking of backup plans. 
 
 He approved emergency funding to keep the district running in March, but the money will run out at the end of June. 
 
 7:30 a.m. 
 
 All but three of Detroit's public schools are now closed for the day amid a sick-out by teachers protesting funding issues at the financially struggling district. 
 
 District spokeswoman Michelle Zdrodowski said in an email early Monday that 94 of the district's 97 schools have been closed for the day. About 46,000 students are enrolled in the district's schools. 
 
 The Detroit Federation of Teachers on Sunday urged its members to call out sick following an announcement that the district wouldn't have enough money to continue paying teachers this summer, or funding summer school or special education programs, without further state funding. 
 
 The governor approved emergency funding to keep the district running in March, as lawmakers consider a $720 million restructuring plan to pay off the district's enormous debt. 
 
 Former bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes was appointed this year to oversee the district. He said Sunday that a sickout was "counterproductive and detrimental" to the efforts of those trying to help the school district. 
 
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 6:40 a.m. 
 
 Detroit Public Schools says most of its schools are closed amid a sick-out by teachers following an announcement that the district is running out of money. 
 
 District spokeswoman Michelle Zdrodowski says in an email that 87 of the district's roughly 100 schools are closed Monday. 
 
 The Detroit Federation of Teachers urged members to call in sick a day earlier, pointing to a weekend announcement that the district will have no money to continue paying teachers this summer without further state funding. 
 
 The union's interim president, Ivy Bailey, released a statement saying that "by refusing to guarantee that we will be paid for our work, DPS is effectively locking our members out of the classrooms." 
 
 Former bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes, who was appointed to oversee the district, says the union's "drastic call to action was not necessary." 
 
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 5:45 a.m. 
 
 Detroit Public Schools says dozens of schools are closed Monday amid a sick-out by teachers. 
 
 District spokeswoman Michelle Zdrodowski says in an email 67 of the district's about 100 schools were closed for the day. 
 
 The Detroit Federation of Teachers on Sunday urged members to call in sick. The union pointed to a weekend announcement that the district will have no money to continue paying teachers this summer without further funding from the state. 
 
 Former bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes, who was appointed to oversee the district, says in a statement the union's "drastic call to action was not necessary." 
 
 In March, Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law emergency funding that's keeping DPS operating through the end of the school year as the state Legislature considers a $720 million restructuring plan. 
 
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 1:30 a.m. 
 
 Detroit Public Schools says at least 43 schools will be closed Monday amid a sick-out by teachers. 
 
 District spokeswoman Michelle Zdrodowski made the announcement late Sunday night. 
 
 The Detroit Federation of Teachers earlier Sunday urged members to call in sick Monday. The union pointed to a weekend announcement that the district will have no money to continue paying teachers this summer without further funding from the state. In March, Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law emergency funding that is keeping DPS operating through the end of the school year as the state Legislature considers a $720 million restructuring plan. 
 
 Sick-outs earlier this year caused tens of thousands of students to miss class. ||||| (CNN) Teachers at all but three of Detroit's 97 public schools called in sick Monday in protest after finding out they may not get paid after June, officials said. 
 
 The mass sickout by more than 1,500 teachers forced 94 Detroit Public Schools to be closed Monday, school district spokeswoman Michelle A. Zdrodowski said. Teachers learned over the weekend that the district would run out of money June 30, according to Ivy Bailey, the interim president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers. 
 
 More than 500 people attended a rally in support of the city's teachers Monday morning outside a school district administration building, according to Nikhol Atkins, a staff member at the teachers' union. Teachers and some parents are urging Michigan lawmakers to pass a $715 million education reform package that would fund salaries for July and beyond. 
 
 "There's a basic agreement in America: When you put in a day's work, you'll receive a day's pay. DPS (Detroit Public Schools) is breaking that deal," Bailey said. "Teachers want to be in the classroom giving children a chance to learn and reach their potential. Unfortunately, by refusing to guarantee that we will be paid for our work, DPS is effectively locking our members out of the classrooms." 
 
 A solution to the school crisis isn't happening fast enough for Detroit parent Tony Kinsey, whose sons attend 11th and 9th grade. 
 
 "I support the teachers on getting a fair deal. They're educators," he said. "I'm frustrated with the adults, the leadership. Our children are the ones suffering." 
 
 A district in crisis 
 
 Detroit's public schools have been in crisis for months. The school district has about $515 million in operating debt, the governor's office has said, and is spending about $1,100 per student on debt service annually. Michigan state Sen. Goeff Hansen has introduced legislation to help bail out Detroit's schools, his spokesman Peter Wills said Monday. That bill passed the Senate and is now before the House, Wills said. 
 
 Monday also is not the first time Detroit public school teachers have protested by calling in sick en masse. In January , teachers staged a sickout to protest dilapidated and dangerously unsanitary conditions -- including rat and roach infestations, black mold and pieces of ceiling falling -- forcing the closure of dozens of schools. Teachers also threatened in March to hold another sickout. 
 
 District official Steven Rhodes believes the sickouts aren't necessary but is sympathetic to the teachers' plight. 
 
 "I am on record as saying that I cannot in good conscience ask anyone to work without pay," said Rhodes, a retired bankruptcy judge who was appointed in February by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to be the transition manager for Detroit Public Schools while lawmakers try to bolster the state's largest school district. 
 
 "Wages that are owed to teachers should be paid," Rhodes said. "I understand the frustration and anger that our teachers feel. I am, however, confident that the legislature will support the request that will guarantee that teachers will receive the pay that is owed to them. The (union's) choice for a drastic call to action was not necessary." 
 
 "I have been and remain confident that the Michigan legislature understands the urgency and importance of the reform legislation that is before it," he added Monday. "The future of Detroit is as much at stake here as the future of the school system." 
 
 Kids 'aren't getting what they need' 
 
 Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of Detroit Parents Network, an organization of parents with children in all city schools, said she felt an "instant splitting headache" when she heard about the sickout. 
 
 "This is one of the most tumultuous school years our kids have experienced," she told CNN. "They aren't getting what they need. It's disturbing. First in January ... (now) we're in May and this is still happening." 
 
 Buckman has nieces and nephews in the public school system. She points out that not every parent has the flexibility to stay home from work or to be late when faced with closed schools, and for some that means children are babysat by older children or left entirely alone. 
 
 "This creates a safety issue when you have unsupervised children," she said. 
 
 It's also a challenge for parents like Kinsey, who works from home but has had to interrupt work three or four times to cajole his sons to do schoolwork. His 11th grader needs to prepare for the SAT, he said. 
 
 "I gave them a couple choices, as long as it was learning," said Kinsey, who gave his sons reading assignments. "They think this is a vacation. My oldest wants to go to the movies and the mall. It's been a lot of negotiating, going back and forth and empathizing with them. It's been tough." ||||| CLOSE Detroit Public Schools can't afford teachers, summer school or special education services — and lots of schools across the nation are cutting budgets. Video provided by Newsy Newslook 
 
 Clint Chico, of the Detroit School of Arts, holds a No Pay = No Work sign at a rally outside of the Detroit Public Schools' headquarters Monday, May 2, 2016. Nearly all of the district's schools were closed Monday because of a teacher sick-out. (Photo: Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press) 
 
 DETROIT — A mass of teacher sick-outs shut down 94 schools in the Detroit school district on Monday, as teachers protest the news Saturday that the district won't be able to pay them past June 30. 
 
 Detroit Public Schools enrolls about 46,000 students in 97 schools. 
 
 The Detroit Federation of Teachers on Sunday called for the mass sick-out of the district's 2,600 teachers. 
 
 Judge Steven Rhodes, the district's emergency manager, told the union Saturday that unless the Michigan Legislature approves sending more money to the district, there is not enough in the coffers to pay teachers their already-earned salaries after June 30. Summer school and extended special education services also would be canceled. 
 
 Teachers said they had been told that the $48.7 million allocated by the Legislature last month to fund the district through June 30 would cover summer pay for the approximately two-thirds of district teachers who signed up for the plan, which allows for paychecks year-round instead of just during the school year. The teachers receive less money during the school year so they can receive paychecks in July and August. 
 
 Rhodes denied this in a news conference Monday. 
 
 "I fully understand the frustration and pain that our teachers and other educators feel," Rhodes said. "I not only understand it, I share it." 
 
 Rhodes said he told teachers an overall rescue package of $715 million would cover those checks, and he urged teachers to call lawmakers and ask them to approve the legislation. The Senate has passed its version of the legislation, but it has yet to receive a House vote. Meanwhile, the House is pushing its own legislation. 
 
 But he said the mass sick-out that closed nearly all of the district's 97 schools is adversely affecting students and families. And he said the district could lose $2 million in state aid if the Michigan Department of Education opts to penalize the district for the lost day. 
 
 Hundreds of Detroit teachers rallied at the district's headquarters Monday, shouting chants of "No pay, no work," and "Enough is enough," calling for a forensic audit of the district and a guarantee they would be paid for their work. 
 
 "No one should expect to go to work without pay," said Ann Mitchell, the administrator for the Detroit Federation of Teachers. 
 
 Detroit Federation of Teachers officials Ann Mitchell, left, Ivy Bailey and Terrance Martin announce a Detroit Public Schools district-wide sick-out for teachers Monday, May 2, 2016. The announcement was made Sunday at Impact Church in Detroit. (Photo: Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press) 
 
 Lydia Paknas, a reading recovery teacher, said the district is going back on a promise it made to teachers during a town hall meeting in March. She said it will cost her $8,000 in pay, plus what she would have earned by teaching during summer school. 
 
 "We have to stick together," said Paknas. 
 
 During a visit to Flint, Mich., on Monday, Gov. Rick Snyder, referring to the sick-outs, said, “That’s not a constructive act with respect to getting legislation through. That probably raises more questions ... with legislators.” 
 
 The union plans an emergency meeting Tuesday night, where it will hold a voice vote "to authorize a major collective action," followed by secret ballot votes in schools Wednesday and Thursday, Martin said. 
 
 Union officials did not specify if their collective action could include a strike — which has technically been illegal for teachers, police, fire and other municipal workers in Michigan since 1947, but have still occurred over the years. 
 
 "You’re telling people to come to work, but we aren’t necessarily going to pay you, that’s a lockout. And we have to be able to respond to what we see as a lockout," Mitchell said. 
 
 Detroit Public Schools, which has been under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager since 2009, has an operating deficit of $515 million. A $715-million education reform package to help keep the district afloat is currently being debated in the Michigan House of Representatives. The state Senate approved the package in March. 
 
 Rhodes, in a statement Sunday, said he is confident the Legislature “understands the urgency of this situation and will act in a timely manner” to ensure both that teachers get paid for their work and that school district operations continue uninterrupted. 
 
 Earlier this school year, some district teachers used sick-outs in protest of what they call deplorable building conditions, their rate of pay and other issues. In January, when sick-outs closed dozens of schools, the district sued the union, claiming it was promoting, in effect, teacher strikes, which are illegal under the Michigan Public Employment Relations Act. A judge ruled there was no proof the union or its leadership encouraged the mass absences of teachers. 
 
 Contributing: Jim Schaefer, David Jesse, Kathleen Gray, Paul Egan and Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press. Follow Lori Higgins and Keith Matheny on Twitter: @LoriAHiggins and @keithmatheny 
 
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– Detroit Public Schools' finances are in such bad shape that teachers were told over the weekend they won't be getting paid past June 30, barring emergency funds from the Michigan Legislature, the Detroit Free Press reports. Most of the district's 2,600 or so teachers aren't taking this news sitting down—at least not behind their desks at their schools, thanks to a mass sickout Monday urged by the Detroit Federation of Teachers the day before. Ninety-four of the district's 97 schools were unable to open their doors Monday to students (46,000 total in the district), and hundreds of teachers called for an independent audit and the "pay we have earned," as the executive VP of the union puts it, at a Monday rally. About two-thirds of the district's teachers participate in a plan that distributes paychecks throughout the entire year, instead of just during the school year—and they say they were told there'd be enough money to cover their summer checks out of the $48.7 million the Legislature directed to the district last month. Gov. Rick Snyder, meanwhile, called the sickout "not constructive" on Monday, per the AP, echoing Sunday's sentiments from Judge Steven Rhodes, the district's appointed emergency manager. Rhodes says although he understands the teachers' "frustration and anger," he also thinks the sickout was a "drastic" and "unfortunate" decision, as he's sure that lawmakers working on a $720 million bailout plan will come through, CNN reports. Strikes for teachers, cops, and other city workers are technically illegal in the state under the 1947 Michigan Public Employment Relations Act, though the Free Press notes they happen anyway.