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The Catherine Ferguson Academy to stay open… as a charter school

Everyone seems to be thrilled that Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy for pregnant and parenting teens avoided closure today by announcing plans to be reborn as a charter school. I’d like to be optimistic, but I find it hard to believe that a for-profit charter school would be able to provide the same level of service […]

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Rachel Maddow interviews Principal Asenath Andrews on the closing of Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy For our previous discussions on the Catherine Ferguson School for pregnant and parenting teens click here.

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Special Report on the closing of Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy

Several weeks ago, we had a really good discussion here on the site about the proposed closing of the Catherine Ferguson Academy for pregnant and parenting teens in Detroit. One of those most engaged in the conversation was my old friend Pete, who is presently a PhD candidate in the Department of Epidemiology, at the […]

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Rachel Maddow on the closing of Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy

I was wondering why we were getting so many new comments on our thread about the Detroit public school for pregnant young women that’s being closed. Well, it looks like we got a shout out on Rachel Maddow’s website… Here’s the segment that accompanied the link. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news […]

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