DETROIT, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The Detroit Public Schools Community School District has budgeted $500,000 to pay parents to attend a “Parent Academy” and complete literacy sessions.

Parents earn a $25 “stipend” for each of the parent literacy classes they attend and get an additional $200 if they complete all 15 classes. The limit a parent can make is $500 in one year. The parenting program began Oct. 28 and the district has paid 330 parents through Jan. 1, according to city documents. The district has spent $230,000 thus far. The classes address life skills as well as literacy.

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The district’s website stated “all sessions have an equity and literacy theme.”

The Parent Academy is part of a $94.4 million settlement reached in a “right to read” lawsuit that was filed in 2016 against the school district and state of Michigan by Detroit students alleging they didn’t receive an education. The state Legislature appropriated the $94.4 million to the school district as part of the settlement.

Detroit Public Schools Community District has routinely finished as the worst urban school district in the country as part of The Nation’s Report Card, a national biannual test.