Parents could pay $25 (about $58.3 when adjusted for inflation) per year and a deposit in order to use the service.
[6] In 2005 the school district proposed giving random drug tests to students involved in all extracurricular activities.
Superintendent Steve Matthews said that he expected for the Japanese population in the school district to increase due to the move of JSD.
[9] After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami occurred, the school district advised school staff to be sensitive to students who may have been affected by the disaster, as many of the district's students were Japanese or of Japanese descent.
[9] As of 2015 Kazuyuki Katayama (片山 和之 Katayama Kazuyuki), the Japanese Consul General in Detroit, stated that he heard that there were 400 Japanese national students in the Novi school system.