The stunner isn't that 47% of Detroit is functionally illiterate, the stunner is that 53% are still at least minimally literate.
Abandoned Detroit schools:
(http://thefortuno.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/abandoned_detroit_schools_1.jpg)
Abandoned Detroit school library:
(http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/images-6/abandoned-detroit-school-library.jpg)
The abandoned Detroit Public Schools Book Depository:
(http://cache.wists.com/thumbnails/3/8a/38a0f50867e2c95d500b9428affdadb9-orig)
Don't know if a bulldozer is really necessary. By the looks of it from this image:
(http://mathieuhelie.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/detroit-demolished.jpg)
at least half of the work of razing has been done already.