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EM’s Term Nearing End, City Council To Decide Role Kevyn Orr May Play In Near...
DETROIT (WWJ) – The Detroit City Council met in a closed-door session to decide if Kevyn Orr’s time as emergency manager should end soon. “In a perfect world … we anticipated the trial being over by...
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Will Kevyn Orr Stay Or Go? Detroit City Council Debates Emergency Manager’s...
DETROIT (WWJ) – Detroit City Council entered a third day of discussions Thursday about the future of Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr. Council spent all day behind closed doors Wednesday trying to decide if...
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Detroit Officials Regaining Most City Control As Orr Removed From Role As...
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – The Detroit City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to transfer daily operations to elected officials while retaining the state-appointed emergency manager to oversee...
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Detroit School Board Votes To Remove Emergency Manager
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Immediate changes aren’t expected after the board of the Detroit Public Schools voted to remove the district’s state-appointed emergency manager. Monday’s vote was the third time...
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DPS And City Of Detroit Strike Deal On Debt, Vacant School Buildings
DETROIT (WWJ) – A deal has been reached between the city of Detroit and its public school district Tuesday — in the form of a trade. The city says it will forgive $11.6 million in DPS debt in exchange...
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Detroit Board Of Police Commissioners Want Their Power Restored
DETROIT (WWJ) – Detroit Board of Police Commissioners say their power needs to be restored to help prevent the kind of police incidents we’ve seen in other places across the country. At issue, reports...
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Initiatives Will Transform Struggling District Says DPS Emergency Manager
DETROIT (WWJ) – After slightly more than four-months on the job – Detroit Public Schools’ Emergency Manager Darnell Early is rolling out several new initiatives that he says will transform the...
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Financially Struggling District To Close Only High School In Highland Park
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (WWJ/AP) – Continued slumping enrollment has forced the Detroit enclave of Highland Park to close its only high school, an emergency manager appointed by the state said Thursday....
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Detroit School Board Files Civil Rights Complaint: State Created Separate,...
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – Members of the board of Detroit’s public school district say Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and state-appointed emergency managers have discriminated against black children by creating an...
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Michigan Public Health Officials See Legionnaires’ Disease Rise In Flint Area
FLINT (CBS DETROIT/AP) – The Michigan Department of Public Health and Human Services is reporting an increase of Legionnaires’ disease in Genessee County. But the state is not able to say if the...
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Snyder Apologizes To People Of Flint During State Of The State Address,...
LANSING (WWJ/AP) – An apology from Governor Rick Snyder to the residents of Flint — in the wake of the water crisis — as he delivered his State of the State Address Tuesday night. “When Michiganders...
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Detroit Teachers Plan Protest At Court Hearing On Sick-out
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – A judge plans to hear arguments in a lawsuit aimed at stopping a sick-out by Detroit teachers, absences that have closed schools and kept thousands of students at home at times over...
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Judge Dismisses Case Against Striking Teachers Group
DETROIT (WWJ) – A judge has dismissed the case against ousted activist Detroit teacher Steve Conn and the Strike To Win Group. Detroit Schools had filed an injunction against the teachers, trying to...
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Repeal Of Emergency Manager Law Part Of NAACP’s Flint Plan
By David Eggert & Jeff Karoub, Associated Press FLINT (AP) – Chief among the priorities national and local NAACP leaders listed Tuesday for the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint is the repeal of...
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Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Darnell Earley To Resign
DETROIT (WWJ) – It’s official: state-appointed Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Darnell Earley will resign. Earley notified Gov. Rick Snyder of his decision Tuesday and says he completed work...
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Detroit Teachers Union Says Threats Of Arrest Made Should Independent...
DETROIT (WWJ) – The Detroit teachers’ union says the district is threatening to have its members arrested if they allow independent inspectors in school buildings. DFT Interim President Ivy Bailey says...
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Document: Michigan Blocked Flint From Switching To Clean Water With Emergency...
LANSING (AP) – The state of Michigan restricted Flint from switching water sources last April unless it got approval from Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration under the terms of a $7 million loan needed...
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Detroit Teachers Gather To Hear Plans To Avoid Payless Payday
DETROIT (WWJ) – Hundreds of Detroit Public School teachers gathered at the Masonic Temple Thursday evening to hear from their union as the district awaits word on whether it will receive $50 million to...
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Congressman: ‘A 5-Year-Old Would Have Known There Was Something Wrong With...
WASHINGTON (WWJ) -Amid a flurry of finger-pointing and shifting of blame a Congressional hearing was held Tuesday on the Flint Water Crisis. Former Flint Emergency Manager Darnell Earley deflected...
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Admission Of Failures In Flint Water Crisis May Not Curb Michigan’s Emergency...
By David Eggert, Associated Press LANSING (AP) – Michigan’s emergency manager system, which has touched everything from the once-bankrupt city of Detroit to smaller municipalities and school districts,...
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