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Major Waste: Detroit Schools Spent $33 Million For TV Studios No One Uses

January 30, 2015, 5:06 PM

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Here's a painful story.

Ross Jones, Johnny Sartin and Randy Lundquist of WYXZ report that 10 years after Detroit Public Schools spent $33 million to open two state of the art television studios to give students a world-class education in broadcasting, not one student has used them.

In 2009, officials told the station that the four-year-old facility would be operational. Although the district was bleeding money, WXYZ says, then-Superintendent Kenneth Burnley spared no expense in constructing the studios.


Read more:  WXYZ


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