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Detroit teacher sick-out closes nearly all schools

Detroit teacher sick out closes nearly all schools

• shut down 94 schools in Detroit Public Schools on Monday, as teachers protest the news Saturday that the district won't be able to pay them past June 30.
  
  
  The district enrolls about 46,000 students in 97 schools

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    The district enrolls about 46,000 students in 97 schools.
    
    
    
    
    Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press
    
    Clint Chico, of the Detroit School of Arts, holds a No Pay = No Work sign at a more
    
    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