Judge Rules Broad's Stooge, Bob Bobb, Must End Illegal Takeover of Detroit Schools

[Hannah Bell]

Bonus Bobb flames out. From the Detroit News:

MARISA SCHULTZ
The Detroit News

Detroit — The Detroit Public Schools board controls the district's academics, not Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb, a judge ruled today in an opinion that found Bobb "chose to ignore the board's academic plan completely" and "failed to perform his duty to consult" with the 11-member body.

Bobb's decision to make all academic, educational and social policy for the districts more than 70,000 students "runs afoul" of the legislative intent of the emergency financial manager law under which Bobb was appointed by the governor in 2009, according to Wayne Circuit Judge Wendy Baxter.

"Mr. Bobb cannot usurp the elected board's authority over academics and curriculum matters by creating his own academic system and programs under the guise of facilities or that his contract with the governor required him to march forward in this way," Baxter wrote in her 34-page opinion.

As in DC, the next step is for teachers to choose a union president in Detroit who supports democracy, rather than oligarchy. Easy call: dump Keith Johnson.

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/12/judge-rules-broads-stooge-robert-bobb.html