I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Connie Calloway, the Detroit Public School superintendent who was fired earlier in the month, is trying to get her job back. She was fired only 18 months into her five-year contract and will still get paid $280,000 a year until her contract expires unless the board can find a specific example of how she broke her contract with DPS.
But Calloway isn’t going out without a fight. She told those at the board meeting after she was fired, “This matter will be fully disclosed, fully investigated on all levels and pursued.”
She announced to the school board this week that she wants a hearing to contest her termination as prescribed within her employment agreement.
Calloway and her lawyer will contest the school the board’s resolution for her terminated that stated the board had “sufficient good cause for termination under the terms of her employment agreement” but did not give specific examples.
On Dec. 15 the school board voted 7-4 on a resolution that stated:
“The board desires to formally address the general superintendent’s failure to fulfill her duties and responsibilities as set forth within the terms and conditions of her employment agreement. The board desires to formally address certain actions [whereas] the general superintendent exhibited a failure to provide adequate leadership of district staff and operations, poor judgment in making decisions on behalf of the district, failure assure the fiscal integrity, transparency and financial soundness of the district grants and finances … continuing violations of insubordinate, unprofessional and uncooperative behavior, failure to maintain consistent communication with the board on district matters […].”
Until the hearing, Calloway is considered to be on administrative leave with pay. Depending on how the hearing goes, Calloway could get her job back or lose her salary and the job.
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