Sentences with phrase «dps emergency manager»
DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts — who has near carte blanche over the schools and is currently being sued by the teachers» union — maintained that the EAS is a fair and effective reform measure.
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The lowest performing schools in Detroit will be taken over by a new authority created in partnership with the state, Detroit Public Schools and Eastern Michigan University, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) and DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts announced at a news conference to much fanfare and some protests.
In the eyes of DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts, the gain was «progress, substantive progress, on academics.»
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DPS is also challenged to attract talent thanks to a 10 percent salary concession the emergency manager has put in place as a result of the district's extreme financial deficit.
During the negotiations, the DPS interim emergency manager said, «It will be more challenging for DPS to succeed without some kind of control over the opening of new charter schools or other kinds of educational opportunities.»
In fact, the same emergency manager who oversaw the switch to contaminated water in Flint — Darnell Earley — has been running DPS for a year.
More broadly troubling to teachers and education - reform observers, however, was DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb's concurrent announcement that he plans to unilaterally modify the Detroit Federation of Teachers» collective bargaining agreement, the first test of a sweeping new state law.