Apple to help fund Detroit high school initiative

Apple has committed to help fund a new education initiative in Michigan that will bring a small, high-quality high school to Detroit. According to The Detroit News, Apple will give more than $1 million over five years to the new Detroit-area high school, which designed as a model to improve the state's failing education system and also may be the first in a series of initiatives that leverage and link businesses to state high schools. Apple will help finance, equip, and finance the school: "Details of the Detroit school will be announced Tuesday. It will eventually house roughly 400 students, starting in the first year with just freshman and sophomore classes. Teachers will be hand-picked and will get ongoing training from Apple, as well as other support. The computer maker will put more than $1 million over five years into the school, which will open this academic year in an existing building."

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