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School is almost over for the year, and one Detroit high school has lots to celebrate. The entire graduating class has been accepted to college. Nearly…

This is a story about second chances.When a teen commits a crime it goes on their permanent record, which can lead to all kinds of disadvantages down the…

Our colleague Jake Neher with the Michigan Public Radio Network filed a story today on high school dropout rate data. Turns out Michigan used to be really…

The Haskell Youth Center is on the front lines of violence prevention in Flint. They don’t use a complicated formula; there are just plenty of positive…

At the beginning of our recent special on violence we did something we've never done before. Usually we begin those shows with music signaling that what…

The number of teens having babies in the U.S. is at an all-time low.Births to all teens have gone down more than 40 percent over the past decade,…

She first went into the system when she was five years old, she says.She bounced around, like any of the thousands of kids in Michigan who go through…

The water crisis in Flint is ongoing. And it's been a while since we've talked about it here at State of Opportunity, so let's catch up.In January,…

How close do you live to the nearest grocery store? I live within ten minutes of at least three chain grocery stores: Kroger, Meijer and Walmart. But…

Today marks 62 years since the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education. The Court ruled that "separate but equal" public schools…