Teacher sickout closes most Detroit schools Monday

All but a handful of Detroit Public Schools were closed Monday after teachers — angry that the troubled district may not be able to pay them over the summer — threatened a sickout.

More than 90 of the district’s approximately 100 schools were closed, according to announcements on the district’s Facebook page, and additional closures were still being added early Monday. More than 40,000 students attend the city’s schools.

Leaders of the Detroit Federation of Teachers learned over the weekend that the district would run out of emergency state funding...