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.
More than 2,500 teachers and staff working at the 40 Detroit Public Schools (DPS) that made the list for restructuring in May got a notice Tuesday informing them that they have to re-apply for their jobs or risk unemployment.
DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb announced in May that he planned on restructuring 40 schools that were failing to meet federal standardized test and attendance requirements.
But it was unclear until Tuesday what the restructuring meant for teachers and staff at these schools. The number of schools set for restructuring grew from 40 to 41 since Bobb’s May announcement.
The notice came as a blow to the 2,600 DPS employees affected and angered Detroit Federation of Teachers union officials. Everyone except the principals who work at any of 41 schools scheduled for restructuring have until Friday to interview for their own jobs according to the Detroit News.
Every teacher, counselor, aide, specialist and assistant at these schools must request an interview with their principals this week.
This news follows more bad news for DPS this week. On Tuesday Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox declared that DPS is no longer a first class school district. This means that enrollment dropped below 100,000 so there is no limit to the number of charter schools that can open within the district and compete with struggling public schools for funding.
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