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Detroit Leadership Academy

school in Michigan, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ24062222 ↗
Source-derived summary

Detroit Leadership Academy is a free public charter school located in Detroit, Michigan. The school was opened in 2012 through the YMCA and currently serves students in Pre-K - 11th grade at two campuses on the city's west side and is managed by Equity Education.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Detroit Leadership Academy” as school in Michigan, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Detroit, Leadership and Academy.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Detroit, Leadership and Academy providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24062222. Authority coordinates are 42.331, -83.233. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Detroit Leadership Academy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.