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...Detroit. Demographer Kurt Metzger heads up Data Driven Detroit (DDD), an agency that just completed a plot-by-plot analysis of the city's 139-square-mile footprint, without which Griffin would be flying blind. DDD is backed by $1.85 million from the Kresge and Skillman foundations. Robert Bobb, emergency financial manager for the Detroit public schools, draws one-third of his $425,000 salary from an alliance of philanthropies led by the Eli Broad Foundation. And if all goes according to plan, Detroit will break ground this year on a trolley line connecting downtown with an Amtrak station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: How Philanthropy is Remaking Detroit | 3/17/2010 | See Source »

Just how divisive it can be was on vivid display last week. There was an uproar over Bing's emerging plan to relocate residents - the weekly Michigan Citizen likened it to a "modern day 'Trail of Tears' for Detroiters" - and an equally unfavorable response to Bobb's $81,000 raise in the second year of his contract, most of which is paid for by foundation money. The school board is so incensed that it has filed a lawsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: How Philanthropy is Remaking Detroit | 3/17/2010 | See Source »

...know there is discomfort in terms of the cuts being made at the city level and in the schools," says Bing. "And then [Bobb] gets a major increase. That was very unfortunate, to have that come into the conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: How Philanthropy is Remaking Detroit | 3/17/2010 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Bobb is drafting broad academic reforms to bolster school-administrator, teacher and student performance. He is establishing systemwide standards for what classes a student needs to have passed to be promoted to the next grade. He has shuffled dozens of principals, often from relatively high-performing schools to less than stellar ones, and he may extend the school day. In the next 18 months, he wants significant gains in the percentage of fourth- and eighth-graders who perform at grade level in math and reading. By 2015, he wants 90% of all students to complete at least one Advanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Robert Bobb Fix Detroit's Public Schools? | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...dark suits and cowboy boots, Bobb has a commanding presence and seems to be everywhere: at school-bus depots, at barbershops, churches and grocery stores to prod parents to get their kids to school each day - on time. His schedule is often double-booked, partly because he knows he must quickly build support for his plans, like a $500.5 million proposal - approved by voters last November - to build or renovate 18 schools. He has recently signed on for a second year. It won't be any easier than his first. "Change is painful," Bobb says, adding, "We cannot be afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Robert Bobb Fix Detroit's Public Schools? | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

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