KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Kalamazoo Public Schools superintendent has been visiting rough neighborhoods at night on the weekends, and recently announced plans to continue doing it this fall.
Dr. Darrin Slade says it’s not a KPS sanctioned effort. It’s one he organized on his own with other local community leaders to head off trouble this summer and get young males back to enroll.
Slade says it’s too early to tell if it’s had any impact, but he is hopeful.
He introduced his team to the school board last month, and thanked them for doing what some might consider dangerous.
It’s one of several targeted efforts to improve the scholastic achievement of the district’s least successful demographic, young Black males.
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