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Hi, I’m Lori Higgins for Chalkbeat Detroit, here with your morning roundup of education news.

The city of Detroit on Thursday announced a major expansion of out-of-school programing, with seven new after-school sites opening across Detroit this school year, Hannah Dellinger reports. The expansion of the GOAL Line Detroit program will not only give students across the city more free options for after-school programs, but it also comes with free transportation from their schools to the program sites. You can learn more here.

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Education advocates say Michigan should not opt in to federal tax credit for scholarship donations, Michigan Public

1,200 schools have closed in Michigan since 2000. The 'Big Shrink' is coming, Detroit News (Paywall)

Rockford school board censures trustee over ‘race-based’ email, MLive