A parade fit for Champions!!!! By: Tayauna Holloway and Imani Tripp DPSCD’s Division 1 State Champs, Cass, and Division 2 State Champs, King, varsity football teams were honored on Dec.
Detroit Public School Community District is the largest district in the entire state of Michigan.
June 10, 2016 - Principal Lisa Phillips hosted the first “Bridging the Gap - Senior Open House” for Graduates Program in the CT Media Center.
On Wednesday, November 2, Cass Tech senior Johnathan Jackson met former United States President Bill Clinton, at Fellowship Chapel in Detroit while on the Presidential campaign trail with his wife, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
Founded in February 2014 by President Barack Obama, the My Brother’s Keeper Initiative (MBK) was launched to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color.
Cass Technical High School affords its students the opportunity to go above and beyond to reach some of the highest grade point averages (GPA) in the nation.
Cass Tech head football Coach Thomas Wilcher seems to keep producing some of the best athletes in the nation.
As part of the National Registration Day on September 7, civil activist Reverend Jesse Jackson along with Mayor Mike Duggan and other political leaders, gathered at Cass Technical High School for a rally stressing the importance of voting to CT seniors. Reverend Jesse Jackson expressed the importance of young people voting and encouraging others to vote.
Last winter, a handful of Cass Tech juniors were given the opportunity to participate in summer programs at Ivy League schools in the summer of 2016.
In 2016 alone, 193 African Americans have been killed by police officers.
“So no one told you life would be this way, your job’s a joke, you’re broke your love life’s D-O-A" Many millennials may not know Allee Willis, the theme song writer of the 90’s hit show Friends.
In March of 2015, Cass Tech students learned they would have the opportunity to work as paid corporate interns with the Ilitch Companies.
Cass Tech drama teacher Marilyn McCormick was honored at Sunday's Tony Awards in New York City for her contributions to the arts.
Last year, Cass Tech girls basketball team played Detroit Country Day during the regular season, and Senegal, Africa native Ndeye Rose Fall’s competitive spirit kicked in. When Fall was a sophomore and played for Consortium High School, her team lost to Country Day.
Joann Spencer called Cass Tech looking to donate a scrapbook of sports articles that had been completed by her son, Crathman Spencer in the 1980s.
The Sound Mind, Sound Body Football Camp was created in 2004 to increase the number of football student-athletes graduating high school and earning college scholarships in the Metro Detroit community. “Sound Mind, Sound Body helps players and their futures.
After a 17-hour plan ride, nine Cass Tech students arrived in Japan with former Japanese teacher Renee Packzowski and foreign language department administrator Lori Singleton. The trip was about $5,000 including plane tickets, hotel stays, food, entertainment and transportation.
Cass Tech’s Javon Jones is not your typical dancer. He grew up in an athletic family, playing lacrosse, basketball and soccer for hours daily.
A 34 composite on the ACT and full ride to Harvard, three Gates Millennium finalist, 12 Scholastic Art awards and a major in Medical Illustration and $925,000 in scholarships have been awarded to Cass Tech’s Senior Scholars. Detroit Public Schools was established in 1842, now in 2016 DPS isn’t nearly the system it was years ago.
