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    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...

    Meanwhile, in "we've cut to the bone" news, the UAW still hasn't cut to the bone.  The Ivory Tower reports this morning that only now, AFTER GM and Chrysler have gone into and come out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, only AFTER all of these much-ballyhooed "concessions" and only AFTER a half-million job cuts is the UAW sending hundreds of "suggestion program" desk workers back to the factory floor.

    Unlike their non-union rivals, the Detroit Three have paid for a small union bureaucracy at each plant to handle grievances, conduct union elections and support labor-management initiatives. Those people didn't work in the plant.

    Now in the leaner post-bankruptcy environment, the UAW is eliminating at least 300 positions across its 23 Chrysler locals, according to several local officials. General Motors expects the initiative will affect less than 1% of its 52,000 U.S. hourly employees, according to Childers Arb.

    Makes a guy wonder what other cushy little programs have been protected all of this time in what are now taxpayer funded union halls.  Or in the taxpayer funded halls of the legislature in Lansing, for that matter.  I hope the administration will forgive me if I don't take their word that they too have "cut to the bone."

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    That's a... (none / 0) (#2)
    by Nick on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 07:59:11 AM EST
    great analogy, actually.

    School Board (none / 0) (#3)
    by GreatLakeStateRealist on Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 10:02:36 AM EST
    With all due respect to Ms. Scott, Mr. Bobb was brought in to fix the school system by making the tough decisions and he is doing just that. Mr. Bobb is fixing the ENTIRE district, not just finances, as the board alluded to yesterday. Had the school board and administration done their jobs in the past, the district wouldn't need Mr. Bobb's services. Had Ms. Scott and her colleagues held vendors, contractors and their employees accountable for their actions, we wouldn't have seen the waste, fraud and corruption that got the district to its current state.

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