Structural Flaws How Costs Capital Improvements Overburden Michigan School Districts Photo Essay (Page Five continued)

Holes and ripped seams pock the playing field shared by schools in the Hamtramck Public Schools district.

Holes and ripped seams pock the playing field shared by schools in the Hamtramck Public Schools district.

Special-education students in Sodus Township District #5 learn behind a temporary partition that demarcates a small classroom set up on a stage at the school. The classroom must be dismantled and reassembled each time the school uses the stage for a produ

Special-education students in Sodus Township District #5 learn behind a temporary partition that demarcates a small classroom set up on a stage at the school. The classroom must be dismantled and reassembled each time the school uses the stage for a production.

Rudyard Area Schools' swimming pool

Rudyard Area Schools' swimming pool.

Contrasting photos show the differences between the swimming pools at Birmingham Groves High School (left) and Rudyard.

Contrasting photos show the differences between the swimming pools at Birmingham Groves High School (left) and Rudyard.
 
Photography by Kate Levy