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.
The tension between Detroit Public School’s Board of Education and state appointed emergency financial manager Robert Bobb escalated again last week when the board promoted the acting superintendent to the permanent post without consulting Bobb. According to a Detroit News report, the board voted 8-1 on Thursday to promote Teresa Gueyser, the acting superintendent who [...]
After two Detroit Public School (DPS) audits uncovered millions in wasteful spending, those suspected of being responsible for the misspent money now face charges. Detroit Public School financial manager Robert Bobb and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy on Wednesday announced that five people have been charged in connection with fraudulent spending of DPS funds.
Michigan took over Pontiac’s finances on Thursday to close a $7.1 million deficit by putting an emergency manager in charge of every dime of the city’s finances.
We all know these are tough economic times. But things are very bad when you cannot afford to buy toilet paper — and things are really that bad for Detroit Public Schools.
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 [...]
Superintendent Connie Calloway didn’t show up at last week’s “Conversation with the Superindendent.” What she missed was testimony about classrooms lacking lights and heat and reeking of sewage.
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.
The Detroit public school district is $400 million in debt and they just approved $173 million in budget cuts that calls for laying off 300 administrators and staff, closing 63 schools by 2013, and cutting back on textbook purchases.
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