Editing Highland Park, Michigan (section)

==Education==

===Primary and secondary schools===
[[File:Highland Park Renaissance Academy.jpg|thumb|Highland Park Renaissance Academy Barber Campus (K-8)]]
Highland Park is served by [[Highland Park Schools]], which was reorganized in 2012 as the Highland Park Public School Academy System, a [[Charter schools in the United States|public school academy]] district. The academy operates one school, Barber Preparatory Academy, a [[K-8 school]]. For [[high school]] education, students are zoned to [[Northwestern High School (Michigan)|Northwestern High School]] in the [[Detroit Public Schools Community District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.detroitk12.org/Page/17829|title=Nonresident Students|publisher=[[Detroit Public Schools]]|accessdate=2025-01-19|quote=All Eighth-grade students from Highland Park are encouraged to call Northwestern High School for enrollment.}}</ref> [[Highland Park Community High School]] of Highland Park Schools closed in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lewis|first=Sharon D.|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2015/05/28/highland-park-high-school-closing/28117949/|title=Highland Park's high school to close as enrollment dips|newspaper=[[The Detroit News]]|date=May 28, 2015|accessdate=June 23, 2015|quote=Weatherspoon said high school students from Highland Park can enroll in nearby Detroit Public Schools, another neighboring district, a charter school or the state-run Education Achievement Authority. DPS will be the students’ home district.}}</ref>

[[George Washington Carver Academy]] is a K-8 charter school that was originally authorized by academy. The school's 2008 mathematics and English standardized test scores for 4th grade students were invalidated after cheating had been discovered.<ref>{{cite web|author=Dawsey, Chastity Pratt|author2=Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki|author3=Kristi Tanner|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-03-10-1Aschooltesting10_ST_N.htm|title=After cheating scandal, school learns lessons in taking tests|publisher=[[Detroit Free Press]] at the [[USA Today]]|date=March 10, 2011|access-date=April 30, 2017}}</ref> In 2013 the school participated in the "Students for Peace" competition in order to reduce the amount of fighting on campus; in 2012 91% of the students had received suspensions because they participated in fighting.<ref>{{cite web|author=Russell, Kim|url=http://www.wxyz.com/news/how-a-school-where-91-of-kids-had-been-suspended-for-violence-stopped-bullying-fights|title=How a school where 91% of kids had been suspended for violence stopped bullying & fights|publisher=[[WXYZ-TV]]|date=November 3, 2013|access-date=April 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170430113426/http://www.wxyz.com/news/how-a-school-where-91-of-kids-had-been-suspended-for-violence-stopped-bullying-fights|archive-date=April 30, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2016 it had 560 students, and it is managed by Midwest Management Group. That year it changed its authorizer to [[Bay Mills Community College]] out of concern that the Highland Park school district may collapse.<ref name=Guyettedisappearing>{{cite news|author=Guyette, Curt ([[American Civil Liberties Union]] of Michigan)|url=http://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/the-disappearing-district-shredded-democracy-lost-students-and-unanswered-debt-questions-in-highland-park/Content?oid=2453382|title=The disappearing district: what's happened to Highland Park schools?|newspaper=[[Metro Times]]|date=July 6, 2016|access-date=April 30, 2017}}</ref>

===Colleges and universities===
[[Lawrence Technological University]] was founded in 1932 in Highland Park by the Lawrence brothers as the Lawrence Institute of Technology and adopted its current name in 1989. Lawrence Tech moved to [[Southfield, Michigan]], from its site in Highland Park, Michigan, in 1955.<ref name= "historical-marker">Michigan Historical Markers: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150420025213/http://www.michmarkers.com/startup.asp?startpage=S0223.htm Lawrence Institute of Technology]}} (accessed April 16, 2015)</ref><ref>Arthur M. Woodford, ''This is Detroit, 1701-2001'', Chapter 18, page 214, Wayne State University Press, 2001, {{ISBN|0814329144}}</ref>

[[Highland Park Community College]] was in Highland Park before its 1996 closing.<ref>"[http://www.ncahlc.org/index.php?option=com_directory&Itemid=192&Action=ShowBasic&instid=1329 Highland Park Community College]." ''[[Higher Learning Commission]]''. Retrieved on March 30, 2009.</ref> It had been known as Highland Park Junior College.<ref>{{cite news|last=Foley|first=Aaron|title=From state-of-the-art to state takeover: The rise and fall of Highland Park Public Schools |url=http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2012/02/highland_park_schools.html|access-date=February 2, 2012|newspaper=mlive.com|date=February 2, 2012}}</ref>

===Public library===
[[File:McGregor Public Library, Highland Park, Mich (NYPL b12647398-74630).tiff|thumb|McGregor Public Library]]
In 1918 Katherine and Tracy McGregor, wealthy individuals, deeded the property of a facility for "homeless, crippled, and backward children."<ref>"[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DTNB&s_site=detnews&f_site=detnews&f_sitename=Detroit+News%2C+The+%28MI%29&p_multi=DTNB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F7500D9BB45B4ED&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM McGregors gave land for library]." ''[[The Detroit News]]''. November 3, 1999. Retrieved on July 13, 2009.</ref> The McGregor Public Library opened on that site in 1924.<ref>Trent, Kim. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20121026063824/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79469067.html Effort to restore Highland Park library gains strength]." ''[[Michigan Chronicle]]''. March 21, 2000. Retrieved on July 13, 2009.</ref> The library closed in 2002. Around 2007 the city began efforts to re-open the library.<ref>"[http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20070713/SUB/70713015# McGregor Library]." ''[[Crain's Detroit Business]]''. July 13, 2007. Retrieved on July 13, 2009.</ref> However, little action has taken place to re-open the building.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shaykhet |first1=Simon |title=Highland Park mayor demands answers about missing funds raised to renovate library |url=https://www.wxyz.com/news/highland-park-mayor-demands-answers-about-missing-funds-raised-to-renovate-library |website=WXYZ Detroit}}</ref>