Detroit School Board Meeting - SUPPORT NEEDED

This morning a press conference was called by Detroit Public Schools yet Roy Roberts, Emergency Manager was not present. Those attending were LaMar Lemons (Board President), John Telford (Interim Superintendent Elect), George Washington (Legal Counsel), David Murray, and Tawanna Simpson (Board members at large).

Discussion for the meeting revolved around the changing hands of control over Detroit Public Schools. After 11 years out of the past 13 of ruling Detroit Public Schools the State of Michigan doesn't want to let go. They feel there still remains a financial emergency to be managed.

Public Act 4 - Emergency Manager Law Referendum

On August 2nd Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the Repeal of Public Act 4 should be placed on the Nov 6, 2012 ballot to be decided by the people of the State of Michigan. During that hearing questions to John Pirich, the attorney representing the Secretary of State asking if he understood that Public Act 72 was no longer a law in effect seemed not to sink in. Through the last few minutes of the hearing he seemed genuinely confused by what Justice Young was asking.

When Public Act 4 was placed into law in 2011 it repealed Public Act 72, at that time. (NOT IN THE FUTURE, OR EVEN NOW - Public Act 72 is no longer a law.) According to MCL 8.4 once a law has been repealed it cannot be revived by repeal of the subsequent law that had it repealed. We are currently sitting with suspension of Public Act 4, which isn't yet repealed - however Public Act 72 is repealed and has been since 2011. Attorney General Bill Schuette and the Governor's Press Secretary Sarah Wurfel have been saying that Public Act 72 is the law that we are now using - the problem is that was REPEALED.

So there you have it - the story that you aren't going to get from the mainstream press who are using the words of the officials, we have to dig in and get facts and report those findings to you.

Eviction Notice To Serve

 

Live Coverage of Meeting

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School Board Meeting Tonight

Detroit Board of Education will meet tonight at 5pm at Fredrick Douglass Academy, 2001 W Warren, Detroit. A meeting of the committee will start the night. During the meeting Interim Superintendent John Telford will be announced.

The report from the Free Press indicates the Attorney General and Roy Roberts intend to remove the Board of Education through an injunction which will be heard tomorrow, and gives additional details from the meeting this morning.