[September 09, 2011] BRIEF: Obama jobs plan would pump $348M into Detroit school upgrades Tweet WASHINGTON, Sep 09, 2011 (Detroit Free Press - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Determining exactly how much Michigan might get under President Barack Obama's new jobs plan could take some time, but it's already clear the city of Detroit would be among one of the biggest winners under a plan to spend $25 billion to modernize some 35,000 schools nationwide. The White House put out estimates today of how much would go to each of the 100 largest school programs in the country with the biggest concentrations of students from low-income families and Detroit's schools was fourth--in line to get some $348 million. Of course, it all depends on whether or not Obama's $447-billion jobs plan is accepted in both the Democratic-led Senate and the Republican-led House. And there have already been suggestions that a package with a price tag that large is unlikely to go far until Congress and the president figure out how to pay for it. New York City's schools would get the most under the $25-billion fund -- at $1.6 billion, followed by school districts in Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami-Dade County. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said today that Detroit can use the money with more than 100 schools, many of which are old and in desperate need of modernization. ___ (c)2011 the Detroit Free Press Visit the Detroit Free Press at www.freep.com Distributed by MCT Information Services [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]