Don Weatherspoon

In order for parents to make the best decisions for their children, they need to know what’s going on. So do taxpayers and voters.In my years of writing…

Highland Park schools can’t afford to offer high school next year, only grades K-8.There are about 160 kids at Highland Park High school now. That’s only…

New emergency managers have been picked to run the Highland Park and Muskegon Heights school districts. Steve Schiller will take over as emergency manager…

The former emergency manager of two Michigan school districts is moving onto help Pontiac schools.Donald Weatherspoon was the emergency manager of the…

There has been public outrage ever since a collection of African-American history materials were found in a dumpster outside Highland Park's high school.…

There has been a firestorm of protest in Highland Park after the discovery that a large collection of history books, film and tapes from the city's high…

With a little luck and another loan from the state, Muskegon Heights Public Schools’ Emergency Manager Don Weatherspoon is predicting the district will…

Muskegon Heights Public Schools had nearly a $12 million deficit at the end of last school year. That's when the district’s newly appointed Emergency…

The Muskegon Heights school system has been fined nearly $100,000 by the Michigan Department of Education. The department launched the investigation after…

This story is the fourth in a four-part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district. Find part…