Judge gives (Robert) Bobb control of DPS academics

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit News

Last Updated: March 18. 2011 5:02PM
Judge gives Bobb control of DPS academics
Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News


Detroit — State-appointed Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb was given total control of the Detroit Public School District today by a Wayne County judge who halted her own earlier ruling that returned academic control to the school board.

Circuit Judge Wendy Baxter granted a stay of an injunction that she had issued last month giving members of the elected Detroit Board of Education authority over curriculum, while Bobb continued to manage the district's budget.

Today's action basically ends the school board's 18-month fight with Bobb over broad-ranging changes he has proposed to consolidate and reform the beleaguered district, which has a $327 million deficit. The ruling by Baxter came in response to this week's enactment in Lansing of a new emergency financial manager act, aimed directly at the controversy in Detroit.

"It usually takes an appeals court to overrule a judge's decision, but this time it took both houses of the state legislature and the governor to overrule this judge," said school board attorney George Washington. "The politicians in Lansing wrote this new law specifically to overrule Judge Baxter's decision. They want complete control. The people of the city of Detroit have fought long and hard for control of their school district, and giving control to an appointed dictator through this new law is an affront."

Read more: http://detnews.com/article/20110318/SCHOOLS/103180448/Judge-gives-Bobb-control-of-DPS-academics#ixzz1GzW0VYve

[knitter4democracy]

1. Frack. That's bad.

The whole thing's a mess, and it's going to get worse if we don't fight.

[MichiganVote]

2. Corruption in 5...4...3...2...

[cliffordu]

3. Who the fuck names their kid 'Bob Bobb"?