Teacher protests amid concerns that the district won鈥檛 be able to pay any of its employees this summer.
In all, 94 of 97 schools closed as a result of a coordinated sickout called for by leaders of the teachers鈥� union.
The protest comes in response to an announcement by Detroit schools Emergency Manager Steven Rhodes that the district will run out of money at the end of June when its emergency aid expires.
That means some teachers who elect to have their checks spread out over the entire year, rather than just during the school year, won鈥檛 be paid for work they鈥檝e already done.
Overall, the district is saddled with .
Rhodes has said he would not ask Detroit schools鈥� employees to continue working without pay if the district couldn鈥檛 pay them.
But, during this weekend鈥檚 announcement, he also warned that a walkout would harm his efforts to convince state lawmakers to approve a $715 million plan to rescue the 46,000-student school district from financial collapse. The Detroit schools reform plan was approved in late March by the state Senate and is awaiting action in the state House.
The ,鈥� where teachers call in sick en masse, began in November and have grown in size and scope since then as the frustrated 糖心动漫vlog continue to protest pay and benefit concessions, large class sizes, and that have left .
Public school teacher strikes are illegal in Michigan. The series of sickouts in Detroit have had some to .