Highland Park Schools in Highland Park, Mich., could be converting to a combination public-charter district next school year under a plan announced Monday by Emergency Manager Joyce Parker, the Huffington Post reports. Parker, who is also the state-appointed emergency manager of the city of Ecorse, developed a draft financial and operating plan for the district over the last month with its previous emergency manager, Jack Martin, who himself was recently appointed Detroit’s chief financial officer [1] under the city’s consent agreement with the state. The Highland Park School District has struggled with bad finances and falling enrollment for several years. In January, a financial review team found pupil enrollment for the district had fallen 58 percent between the 2006 and 2011 school years. It totaled the district’s cumulative general fund deficit at over $11 million in June of 2011. Parker said Monday the school system’s expenditures still exceed revenues, and she estimated the deficit would jump by $4 or $5 million by the end of this month. The state bailed out the district with emergency funds in February and is expected to do so again in August…