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  • Authorities probing ex-Chicago schools CEO's Detroit tenure

    10/15/2015 11:49:25 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 1 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 15, 2015
    Authorities are investigating Detroit Public Schools contracts awarded by a former official who has pleaded guilty to her role in a kickback scheme while she was CEO of Chicago's school system, DPS said Thursday.
  • Michigan’s Emergency Managers Seen as Major Threat by Labor

    09/03/2012 6:44:18 AM PDT · by DeaconBenjamin · 5 replies
    Stateline.org ^ | By Melissa Maynard, Staff Writer
    Gerald McEntee had Michigan on his mind in June when he delivered his final address as president of the nation’s largest public employee union. “Our sisters and brothers in Michigan are on the front lines in the next critical battle,” McEntee told the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. He declared that the imperative was “defeating Governor Rick Snyder's anti-worker and anti-American emergency manager’s bill. These managers are local dictators who rip up union contracts.” Focusing on an emergency manager bill in one state might seem an unlikely valedictory for a legendary labor leader who has served his...
  • Detroit School Leader Sends Wrong Message, Some Parents Say (Can't write a sentence.)

    03/06/2010 7:48:46 AM PST · by tobyhill · 37 replies · 1,484+ views
    fox news ^ | 3/5/2010 | fox news
    As if Detroit doesn't have enough problems these days, the president of the city's school board offered the shocking admission that he can't pen a coherent sentence. Otis Mathis, who oversees the academic future of 90,000 public school students, told the Detroit News that he's a "horrible writer" after reports surfaced that he sent a Feb. 29 e-mail to the financial manager of Detroit Public Schools that was rife with spelling, punctuation and usage errors. "If you saw Sunday's Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have...
  • Does DPS (Detroit Public Schools) leader's writing send wrong message?

    03/04/2010 9:42:49 AM PST · by reaganaut1 · 4 replies · 328+ views
    No excerpt allowed from this source, story here .