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.
Members of the Detroit City Council are reacting to a plan by Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager Robert Bobb, and ordered to be implemented by the state, to close half of the city’s schools and double class sizes. And they’re not happy.
A deficit-reduction plan proposed by Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb would drastically boost class sizes and close nearly half of the district’s 142 schools. The Michigan Department of Education approved Bobb’s plan last month and ordered him to implement it to eliminate the district’s $327 million legacy deficit by 2014.
“If that is allowed to come, you’re looking at the death of the Detroit Public Schools. We cannot allow that to happen,” Cockrel said during today’s session. “Things are bad, but they are not that bad. DPS will collapse. Sixty kids in a classroom is absolutely insane.”
Councilwoman JoAnn Watson called the plan “unconstitutional” and said it was a violation of students’ civil rights.
It’s difficult to imagine how it would even be physically possible, as few — if any — public school classrooms are designed to fit that many students in them at once.
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