2008 House Bill 5765 ↩

House Roll Call 1002: Passed

To reduce from 100,000 to 60,000 the number of students that qualify a school district as a “school district of the first class.” Detroit is the only such district, which is a statutory device to prohibit an expansion of charter schools in the city, allow the Detroit School District to be exempted from some regulations that apply to other districts, and to subject it to some regulations that don't apply to other districts. The Detroit district has lost tens of thousands of students in recent years, and is expected to fall below the 100,000 threshold soon.