Sentences with phrase «schools emergency manager»

Last month, Roy Roberts, former GM executive and current Detroit Public Schools emergency manager, told The Huffington Post that more charter schools are on the list as part of a plan to rebuild Detroit's struggling schools.

We're going to have charters,» Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy Roberts, who is also the chair of the EAS board, told The Huffington Post.

The Detroit Public Schools emergency manager has unveiled plans that allow 10 schools to self - govern and put the services of the district's central office for sale for charter schools and others in the area, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Not exact matches

For example, the model suggests that right after the strike, emergency managers should expect to see some people rushing toward ground zero, jamming the roads in a frantic effort to pick up children from school or find missing spouses.

Though Anderson doesn't say much about his qualifications for the job or education track record, he describes the heroics of Bobb's current job as emergency financial manager of Detroit's beleaguered schools — Michigan's governor says he «doesn't take any prisoners» and isn't «afraid to make the hard calls» or «fire people» — and notes the coincidence of Bobb's tenure in the Motor City expiring next June, about the same time as Henderson's interim contract ends.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

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.»

Roberts brings decades of managerial, financial, and organizational experience to his roles as the emergency manager of the Detroit Public Schools and the board chairman of the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan.

Another six schools are to be closed in June 2011, followed by seven more a year later, emergency financial manager Robert Bobb said.

That's when the district's newly appointed Emergency Manager Don Weatherspoon said the district couldn't afford to open school in the fall.

Muskegon Heights schools» emergency manager set up the charter system in the summer of 2012, when the existing district couldn't afford to open.

Under emergency managers, Highland Park's school district continued to decline as more schools closed and students left.

In 2012, after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder put Detroit under emergency management, the manager closed 16 city schools and handed 15 to the Education Achievement Authority, which received millions from the likes of the Kellogg and Gates foundations.

The emergency manager appointed to put Detroit's troubled public school system on a firmer financial footing said on Thursday he was sending layoff notices to all of the district's 5,466 unionized employees.

Public Act 4, signed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) in March, grants the emergency managers of troubled school districts the power to «reject, modify, or terminate one or more terms and conditions of an existing collective bargaining agreement.»

However the true examples of following ConnCAN's prescription can be found in places like Detroit, where the emergency manager left under a cloud and Detroit's schools are on the brink of collapse, and in Tennessee where the superintendent, Chris Barbic, resigned, admitting turnaround was «much harder» than he thought.

Jennifer Granholm as an emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, making him one of four such officials around the state tasked with pulling underwater school districts out of debt.

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The city's main district is now run by an elected school board after years of control by state - appointed emergency managers.

That's after an emergency manager laid off all the former public school teachers in Muskegon Heights because he didn't have enough money to open school in the fall.

Over the summer Muskegon Heights schools» then emergency manager laid off everybody who worked at the district and hired Mosaica Education to run operations for 5 years.

«The outcome of this millage will change the future of Muskegon Heights forever,» says a letter the school district's emergency financial manager Don Weatherspoon sent home to parents this week.

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) first appointed an emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools in 2009.

In Detroit Public Schools, the Detroit Federation of Teachers threatened to strike when the emergency financial manager called for teacher merit pay and an end to the seniority system.

And though he has the power to do so — thanks to Michigan's wide - ranging emergency manager law — he said, according to the Detroit Free Press, that he has no plans to reconstitute the school board or cancel union contracts.

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.

Robert Bobb (class of 2005), the Emergency Financial Manager of the Detroit Public Schools, recently sent layoff notices to every one of the district's 5,466 salaried employees, including all its teachers, and said that nearly a third of the district's schools would be closed or turned over to private charter opeSchools, recently sent layoff notices to every one of the district's 5,466 salaried employees, including all its teachers, and said that nearly a third of the district's schools would be closed or turned over to private charter opeschools would be closed or turned over to private charter operators.

Former GM executive Roy Roberts took over as the emergency manager of Detroit's public schools yesterday.

After graduation, Matt took a job as an emergency technician at an Indianapolis clinic, eventually becoming a supervisor after receiving his Veterinary Practice Manager certificate from the Krannert School at Purdue University.