“Roy Roberts, the state appointee who runs the Detroit Public Schools, announced in a letter dated today that he will fire the superintendent the school board hired and reverse decisions the board made since it acquired academic powers in August. The state’s new emergency manager law takes effect today, reinstating Roberts’ authority over all DPS operations. From August until today, the former emergency financial manager law was in place, which gave the school board authority over academic operations. Roberts’ memo to employees explained that he plans to issue an executive order to rescind the board’s attempts to ratify employment contracts, hire five administrators and rename several schools”
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Roy Roberts to fire DPS superintendent, undo board decisions | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
and this comes after the school board was sued by the state, which is why a judge said they had academic powers to begin with.
this is what happens when democracy is not as important as #opportunitydetroit
(via iinventedeverything)