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 [...]
Detroit is a school district that’s so deep in the hole they can’t even keep the lights and heat on in some schools or buy new books. Now they’ve broken a contract with on of the highest paid officials in the state and agreed to terminate her “with pay” until her contract is up. What [...]
Detroit Public Schools superintendent Connie Calloway was fired Monday evening when the school board voted 7-4 to terminate her contract. The decision will be effective Tuesday. The board’s resolution said Calloway was being fired “with cause” because she was “insubordinate” and “uncooperative” with the board and that she failed to provide leadership. The resolution said [...]
Detroit Public School board decided not to renew Chief Financial Officer Joan McCray’s contract. On Monday school board meeting the board will decide on the renewal of the Superintendent Connie Calloway’s contract.
At a meeting of DPS school officials titled “Conversation with the Superintendent” parents, teachers and students came out to voice their concerns about various issues within their own schools. But there was someone missing: the superintendent.
From the Detroit News: The Michigan Department of Education announced Monday that Detroit Public Schools’ financial operation is in such disarray that an emergency financial manager is being appointed to take over the system’s finances. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan declared today that the district is in a “financial emergency.”
As Detroit Public Schools crumble with a meager budget and ridiculously high dropout rate, you’d think school officials would stop the bickering and try to get some work done. But the feud between the superintendent and the school board goes on, and I can’t help but think: what about the kids?
The tension between the Detroit School Board and the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) Superintendent Connie Calloway has grown, ever since they argued over the approval to cut $500 million in spending to plug a gaping deficit. Calloway, who will receive her one-year evaluation from the school board in a closed meeting tonight, may be voted [...]
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