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.
A review of Detroit Public Schools finances for the last year shows that Emergency Manager Robert Bobb spent $1.6 million on travel and gave raises to consultants even as wages for teachers and other employees were cut.
Detroit Public Schools’ new Emergency Manager, Roy Roberts, announced yesterday that he will scale back a plan to turn a third of the city’s schools into charter schools by next year.
In a presention on his priorities for educational reform today Gov. Rick Snyder called for expanded use of privately-operated charter schools and he said that 23 school districts face possible takeover by Emergency Managers.
The Emergency Financial Manager of the city of Benton Harbor has issued an order stripping all city boards and commissions of all their authority to take any action.
As if to prove correct those who argued that the Emergency Manager bill would be used to alter or eliminate union contracts, Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Robert Bobb said Thursday that he will use those new powers to do exactly that.
Next week the Detroit Public School system will begin accepting bids from charter school operators interested in taking over operations at 45 city schools.
Robert Bobb, the state-appointed emergency financial manager for the Detroit Public Schools, is proposing that most of the schools being closed down in that city be converted into charter schools.
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.
Proposed school funding cuts and legislation to make it easier for state officials to take over fiscally troubled school districts will throw Michigan’s schools into poverty and uncertainty, education officials say.
Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager Robert Bobb’s contract expires at the end of June and Mayor Dave Bing is asking the Snyder administration not to appoint one of Bing’s own top aides to replace him because it would send the wrong message to the school board.
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