Detroit and other cities in Michigan are turning to businesses to help pay for schools that provide a wide variety of services to students and their families.
Today JPMorgan Chase announced it will donate one and a half million dollars to pay for three “wraparound’ schools in Detroit.
Detroit schools emergency manager Roy Roberts says the idea recognizes that students won’t succeed without support at home.
“When we sat with students, one of the things students said to us was, can you help us teach our parents to be parents? Now you think deeply about that. That’s deep stuff. So we’re going to do everything we can. You’ve got parents with two jobs, two people working, broken families. We’ve got a lot of issues.”
Roberts says the services can include parenting training, help finding a job, and counselors who are available around the clock.
Governor Rick Snyder was on hand for the announcement. Snyder says he wants businesses to become more directly connected to schools.