The Takeaway has been focusing on education this week, as students have been heading back to school across the country. Today, a look at one school, Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy. With a $327 million deficit and huge cuts in funding and employment, the public school system in Detroit has entered worrisome times. Catherine Ferguson Academy, a unique school that caters specifically to young mothers and pregnant teenagers, was almost closed as a result of the deficit, but students, teachers, politicians, and advocates rallied to save it. Asenath Andrews, the principal of Catherine Ferguson Academy, talks about her school and the education system in America.
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