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Tag: Boyd

Liz Boyd versus the all-Dem Detroit Public School Board

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 07:31:10 AM EST
Tags: Granholm, Boyd, Bobb, DPS, Union, waste (all tags)

Circle this date on your calendars and remember it well, because these sorts of things tend to happen only once in a lifetime. I'm going to agree with something said by Governor Granholm's spokeswoman, Liz Boyd.

Yesterday while the President was turning a long-planned town hall meeting with Macomb County moms and dads into an invitation only speech for Democratic Party donors and big-wigs about Community Colleges a little dose of that "yes we can" attitude was force-fed into the southeast Michigan atmosphere.

If only it'd filtered south a few miles and made it's way into the D, where Robert Bobb has been waging a one-man war with the entrenched Democratic Party education bureaucracy in an effort to turn around one of the most maligned public school districts in the nation. And the man has been getting things done.

His reward from the all-Dem Detroit Public School board? A lawsuit seeking an injunction to stop him in his tracks. The Detroit News:

"We have no problem working with him, but we have a problem with him working around us, (said board President Carla Scott). You can't do something without discussing it with us. You don't have a right to set the policy."
Last week, Gov. Jennifer Granholm's spokeswoman said Bobb, whom the governor appointed earlier this year, is not overstepping his role with the district. Granholm gave him a very difficult job of turning around the district, and he doesn't need to be micromanaged, Liz Boyd said.

Apparently Ms. Scott and the rest of the board (which voted unanimously to take the man to court) didn't get Ms. Boyd's message. And while I fully understand there is ZERO chance the Governor will actually defend her appointee against elected Democrats in public, at least we've got last week's statement to keep us warm at night.

Not that I wouldn't trade those warm fuzzies for a bit of common sense at DPS. Let the man do his job cleaning up your mess, Madame Chairwoman.

Read on...

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