DPS emergency manager to announce school closures Wednesday

(WXYZ) - Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy Roberts will announce Wednesday which schools he will close as part of his plan to consolidate the troubled district. The announcement is expected around 5:00 p.m.

The 7 Action Newsroom has learned that students from 7 Detroit schools will attend one of four new buildings that will be open in the fall.  The new schools were built with more than $500 million raised thanks to a voter-approved construction program.

Roberts’ office is not releasing a list of the schools scheduled to be shuttered at the end of the academic year, but the president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers says parents and students at affected campuses were visited by Roberts in the past week.

Among the closures according to Johnson, Kettering High School, City High School and Mae C. Jemison Elementary.  Southwestern High School and Ludington Magnet Middle School have also been named.

A number of other programs will also come to an end.

School closures are nothing new for Detroit students.  Since 2005, the district has shut down more than 100 school buildings.  They come as the district deals with declining enrollment.  Since 2007 enrollment has dropped by about 38,000 students.