Sentences with phrase «emergency financial manager»

Roy Roberts, the state - appointed emergency financial manager for the Detroit district, has not determined which of the district's nearly 100 buildings would close.

The City of Allen Park is the latest to get a state appointed emergency financial manager.

Roberts succeeds Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb, whose contract expires at the end of June.

Michigan law grants emergency financial managers expansive authority, and a law to take effect March 28 will boost those powers, allowing Orr to terminate collective bargaining agreements with the city's 48 unions.

There's a lot on the agenda as Detroit's emergency financial manager tries to meet a deadline to decide whether the city and escape a bankruptcy filing.

In March 2011, for instance, Detroit Public Schools (DPS) emergency financial manager at the time, Robert Bobb, proposed inviting charters and private schools to take over Detroit's 41 most academically challenged schools.

Broad also paid $ 56K towards the $ 425K salary of its BSA graduate Robert Bobb, the first Detroit public Schools emergency financial manager.

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.

«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.

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

In the biggest state takeover of a U.S. city in more than two decades, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday named a lawyer with deep expertise in corporate bankruptcy as Detroit's emergency financial manager.

The state of Michigan installed what's called an emergency financial manager in Pontiac to stave off bankruptcy.

RiShawn Biddle reports that Roy Roberts, the emergency financial manager overseeing Detroit's dysfunctional traditional district, is leaving his post later this month.

Doors are expected to shut on more than a quarter of Detroit's 172 public schools in June as the district fights through steadily declining enrollment and a budget deficit of more than $ 219 million, an emergency financial manager said Wednesday.

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.

The emergency financial manager of Muskegon Heights Public Schools is asking voters to renew an operating millage for the next 16 years.

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