Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announces re-election run

DETROIT (AP) — Mike Duggan wants a second four-year term as Detroit's mayor, but first plans to fight any potential efforts by the state to shut down about two dozen academically underperforming public schools in the city.

Detroit school leaders, parents and other critics have said that closing neighborhood schools would force many students to travel miles across the city to other schools or transfer to districts outside Detroit.

[...] you don't close the school until you've created a quality alternative.