The goal of this report is to address a simple question: What happened to Detroit Public Schools? Since the school district's peak in the 1960's, enrollment in DPS has declined as the city's population drops and parents opt out of public schools. Just 47,000 students attend public schools in Detroit today, down from nearly 300,000 in 1966. Nearly 200 schools have closed in the last 15 years. The city’s neighborhoods are dotted with vacant, abandoned schools and empty lots where schools once st