No easy task to getting DPS students books

Educated in private schools in the suburbs, Lain specifically chose to transfer to Detroit's Kettering High School for what was billed as a unique and elite aion power leveling academic program.

But with that transfer came a shocking frustration that historically has haunted the state's largest school district: She doesn't have aion money textbooks.

"There's a lot of stuff that we are missing out on when we don't have the material that we need," said Lain, 16, of Melvindale, who's enrolled in the district's allied health early college program.

Despite all the efforts of Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb and his team to whittle away the district's deficit, streamline operations and boost academics, the most basic issues still plague some of the city schools. Kids are missing aion account books and teachers don't have the supplies to teach.

"It's not unique to Kettering," said Detroit Federation of Teachers President Keith Johnson. "I have done visitations of 69 schools and with just about every one of them there's been a problem with textbooks."

District leaders acknowledged Wednesday that textbook delivery remains a problem and pledged a "major overhaul."

"The textbooks for the allied health aion gold program have been ordered and are scheduled to be delivered" today, said DPS spokeswoman Jennifer Mrozowski.

The textbook issues haven't been as severe as years past, when book vendors had put credit holds on DPS for unpaid bills. Nonetheless, they still exist despite Bobb's pledge to have teachers equipped with books and supplies on the first day of school, Johnson said.

"It's a critical concern to me," he said. "Here we are in the 10th week of school and we still have a number of schools and classrooms that still don't have their full complement of books and supplies and yet the teachers are still being held accountable."