Eminem Chrysler Super Bowl Commercial, UPDATE Detroit — The Detroit Board of Education and the teachers union are exploring whether higher taxes and a longer school year could help stave off a drastic state-ordered plan to eliminate the district's $327 million deficit. On Monday, The Detroit News reported that state education officials have ordered DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb to immediately implement a plan to close half the district's schools and increase high school class sizes to 60 students to erase the legacy deficit and balance its budget by 2014. Detroit Public Schools had 150,000 students in 2003-04, according to the Michigan Department of Education. DPS had 87,032 students in 2009-10. Bobb's plan projects that downward trend to fall to 58,570 in 2014. Michigan orders DPS to make huge cuts detnews.com/article/20110221/SCHOOLS/102210355/Michigan-orders-DPS-to-make-huge-cuts Shrinking Detroit Schools www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/14664 Officials, DPS board battling deficit reduction plan detnews.com/article/20110223/SCHOOLS/102230362/Officials--DPS-board-battling-deficit-reduction-plan

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